Disabled button only giving default browser context menu.

[thomas.clarke]

Hi all

Using Firefox 3.6.6, GWT 2.0.3 on Win XP SP3.

I cannot get a GWT context menu to appear on a disabled button. Instead I get the standard browser context menu.

import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.IButton;
IButton diagnoseBtn;
diagnoseBtn = new IButton(lang.diagnoseText()); diagnoseBtn.setContextMenu(ContextMenu.CreateHelpMenu(ContextMenu.HELP_ID.DIAGNOSE_BTN));
diagnoseBtn.setDisabled(true);

The context menu works fine when the button is not disabled.

Hope someone can help
Thanks

[Isomorphic]

"Disabled" means non-interactive, so this is by design. End users are unlikely to click on a button with disabled appearance. Is there another place you can put the context menu?

[thomas.clarke]

Hi,
Thanks for the response.
I can accustom my self to there being no response from a disabled button. What I find issue with is that I can't stop the default browser context menu being raised from a disabled button. No where else in the app is it possible to raise this menu so it seems a bit random not to mention the fact I don't want the users accessing browser functionality while running the app.
Thanks for the insight though, much appreciated.
Tom

[Isomorphic]

Use GWT's global event handling mechanism to trap it (EventPreview).

[sthirunav]

Thomas, were you be able to success on that ?

Am running into a similar situation... for me not only the disabled button, but also the grid filters after cancelling the the context menu on the root layout.

I believe handling using EventPreview will cancel the whole right click itself instead of just blocking the default context menu.

[Atd]

I have the same scenario with Imag , it will show default context menu when its disabled .....


Any update on that please ???