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Ok, I fixed it. I had the

basil_brush — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:49:17 -0700

Ok, I fixed it. I had the popupset just inside my overlay tag, which I now realise won't work because the popup is not a alteration of an existing object. If I move it to be inside the my tabpanel then it works. I'm new to xul and it's just me making daft mistakes.

Re: menu popup

ToddW — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:37:00 -0700

I just tested the above code and the popups appear correctly on the mouse right-click operation. Works for me in both Firefox and Komodo.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE window PUBLIC "-//MOZILLA//DTD XUL V1.0//EN" "http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/global.css" type="text/css"?>
<window id="yourapplication_window"

        windowtype="YourApplication"

        title="YourApplication"

        xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

        xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"

        width="800"

        height="600"

        screenX="20"

        screenY="20"

        persist="screenX screenY width height"

        >
    <popupset>

     <menupopup id="kompile_component_popup">

       <menuitem label="New component..."/>

       <menuseparator/>

       <menuitem label="Edit..."/>

       <menuseparator/>

       <menuitem label="Something" autocheck="true"/>

       <menu label="Sort">

         <menupopup>

           <menuitem label="Sort by Name" autocheck="true"/>

           <menuitem label="Sort by Date" autocheck="true"/>

         </menupopup>

       </menu>

     </menupopup>

    </popupset>

    <hbox flex="1" context="kompile_component_popup"/>

</window>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE window PUBLIC "-//MOZILLA//DTD XUL V1.0//EN" "http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">

<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/global.css" type="text/css"?>

<window id="yourapplication_window"
        windowtype="YourApplication"
        title="YourApplication"
        xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
        width="800"
        height="600"
        screenX="20"
        screenY="20"
        persist="screenX screenY width height"
        >

    <popupset>
     <menupopup id="kompile_component_popup">
       <menuitem label="New component..."/>
       <menuseparator/>
       <menuitem label="Edit..."/>
       <menuseparator/>
       <menuitem label="Something" autocheck="true"/>
       <menu label="Sort">
         <menupopup>
           <menuitem label="Sort by Name" autocheck="true"/>
           <menuitem label="Sort by Date" autocheck="true"/>
         </menupopup>
       </menu>
     </menupopup>
    </popupset>
    
    <hbox flex="1" context="kompile_component_popup"/>
</window>

Context menu

basil_brush — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:40:38 -0700

Hello. I'm trying to write an extension which contains a xul tree, and I want to implement a right-click context menu on the tree. I tried using the mozilla method described here:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL:PopupGuide:ContextMenus
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xptoolkit/popups.html

But it doesn't work. I tried assigning the popup to all manner of elements in my overlay and no matter how I click no menu appears.

My popup code is:

An example of my element is:

Anybody have any ideas why it doesn't work? Thanks.