Objective
This article will give an introduction of mouse right click events on Silverlight controls. Silverlight 4.0 introduces context menu for all the controls.
Right Click Mouse Event is added newly added feature in Silverlight 4.0.
Design
Create a Button on Silverlight page.
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Black">
<Button x:Name="myButton" Width="75" Height="40" Background="Red" Content="Click Here" />
</Grid>
Adding Right click events
Now add mouse right click events to button. Context menu or Right click event could be added to any control in Silverlight 4.0
There are two Mouse right click events.
- MouseRightButtonDown
- MouseRightButtonUp
So after adding the events
myButton.MouseRightButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(mosuedown)
myButton .MouseRightButtonUp +=new MouseButtonEventHandler(mouseup);
We could handle the event according to our need.
void mouseup(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
// Handle the event as of need
}
void mosuedown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
// Handle the event as of need
}
While running above code, we will get below output. Once right click on button, default context of Silverlight will come. See the images below.
On clicking on Silverlight, Silverlight configuration window will get open. See the image below.
Disabling default context of Silverlight
We need to tell Silverlight that context has been handled by making handled as True.
void mosuedown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
e.Handled = true;
}
After enabling handled true the default context of Silverlight will be disabled. Now if you run the application, you won't get default Silverlight context on right click.
Now, adding a message box to handle the events.
Complete code is as below
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
namespace TestingRightClickEvents
{
public partial class MainPage : UserControl
{
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
myButton.MouseRightButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(mosuedown);
myButton .MouseRightButtonUp +=new MouseButtonEventHandler(mouseup);
}
void mouseup(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Right Click of Button is Up ");
}
void mosuedown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
e.Handled = true;
}
}
}
Output
Conclusion
In this article, I introduced Context menu or Mouse Right click event handling in Silverlight 4.0 Thanks for reading.