gui.popMenu

Shows or hides a popup menu.

Prototype

bOk = gui.popMenu ( hMenu, bShow, [nGlobalPositionX=nil, nnGlobalPositionY=nil] )

Description

Shows or hides a popup menu, for instance a right-click context menu.

Parameters

hMenu - menu handle
bShow - true to show, false to hide
nGlobalPositionX, nGlobalPositionY - optional menu position on the screen in px, default nil means mouse pointer position

Return values

bOk - true on success

Sample

function onPropertyViewSectionAIModelsItemRightClicked ( hView, hComponent )
 
    local hMenu = gui.getComponent ( "genericContextMenu" )
    if  ( hMenu ) then
        -- fill it with items
        -- and when done, pop the menu
        gui.popMenu ( hMenu, true ) 
        -- etc
 

Available since ShiVa 2.0