Context menu on editable table?

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#1

Hi:

When I right-click on a non-editable table, I get the table actions as defined in the manual. However, when I right-click on an editable field in a table, I get the browser’s context menu (or maybe it is a TextField context menu?)

Is there any way to get the table context menu when right-clicking on an editable table field?

#2

Hi,

The browser context menu is shown on purpose, see the issue.

In order to show the table actions context menu, you need to the client-side table implementation.

  1. Create a web-toolkit module
  2. Extend CubaScrollTableConnector 
import com.haulmont.cuba.web.widgets.CubaTable;
import com.haulmont.cuba.web.widgets.client.table.CubaScrollTableConnector;
import com.vaadin.shared.ui.Connect;

@Connect(value = CubaTable.class, loadStyle = Connect.LoadStyle.EAGER)
public class CustomScrollTableConnector extends CubaScrollTableConnector {
    @Override
    public CustomScrollTableWidget getWidget() {
        return (CustomScrollTableWidget) super.getWidget();
    }
}
  1. Extend CubaScrollTableWidget
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Event;
import com.haulmont.cuba.web.widgets.client.table.CubaScrollTableWidget;

public class CustomScrollTableWidget extends CubaScrollTableWidget {
    @Override
    protected boolean isShowBrowserContextMenu(Event event) {
        return false;
    }
}

Demo project: table-context-menu.zip (85.0 KB)

Regards,
Gleb

#3

Hmmm, I wonder what the reasoning was. Doesn’t matter, I guess. Thanks for this.

My simple solution was to generate a small label empty column as the first column of the table. Users can right click that field to get the table context menu.

Seems like a good compromise.

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