[Tutor] Producing a pop-up on graphics area?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sat Feb 16 12:50:03 CET 2008


Wayne Watson wrote:
> I want to allow a user who is looking at a graphic area that contains
> an image to be able to right-click  on the graphic to produce a menu
> of choices. What's available to do that?

Typically you would install a right-click handler on the graphic area. 
The handler pops up the menu. The details depend on what GUI framework 
you are using. Here is a Tkinter example (though on my Mac <Button-3> 
seems to be the middle button; changing to <Button-2> makes it use 
right-click):

http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-popup-menu.htm

Kent


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