Shortcut Menu Selection (App) Event
Installed With: Full Development System
Class: Control Events
Type: Notify
Generated when the user selects an application item from the shortcut menu of a control. Use the Shortcut Menu Selection (User) event to generate an event when the user selects a user-defined menu item. This event is posted after the built-in shortcut menu item is processed by LabVIEW.
Event Data Fields
| Name | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | Source of the event. LabVIEW UI refers to any built-in user interface event.
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| Type | Type of event that occurred, such as Mouse Down, Value Change, Timeout, and so on. | ||
| Time | Value of the millisecond timer when the event occurred. | ||
| CtlRef | Reference to the control on which the event occurred. | ||
| ItemTag | Name of the LabVIEW shortcut menu item the user selected, such as APP_SC_COPY_DATA. | ||
| ItemPath | Path of the LabVIEW shortcut menu item that the user selected, such as APP_SC_VISIBLE_ITEMS:APP_SC_SCALE_LEGEND. | ||
| Coords | Coordinates of the mouse at the location of the mouse click at the time of the event. Coordinates are relative to the pane's origin. | ||
| SubObj | Reference to the object on which the event occurred. For example, if the user right-clicks a cluster that contains several controls, the SubObj might be a control within the cluster, even if the cluster added the shortcut menu item. |
Example
Refer to the Run-Time Shortcut Menus VI in the labview\examples\general\Run-TimeShortcutMenu.llb for an example of using the Shortcut Menu Selection (App) event.
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