Using onContextMenu in a Perspective Tree

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Hi,

I'm using a Tree in Perspective and i would like to get the data under the cursor where i've right-clicked.

My contextMenu is enabled, and i've added an item "Edit" which send a message "onEditItem". In the payload i've set the props.selectionData[0].value

But the problem is that the selectionData is updated only on a Left-Click, not a Right-Click to show the context menu.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Thanks

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Capture the contextmenu event, get the node under the cursor, and manually set selectionData to the clicked node. This ensures the selection is updated even without a left-click, allowing the context menu to work as expected.

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I've searched for any method to know what is the node at (X,Y), but i've not found any. Can you tell me how i can do that?

The online manual about the Tree scripting is very minimal. It doesn't seems to expose any method to get the node at a given position.

Perspective - Tree Scripting

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You could hack something but it wouldn't be reliable, since things moving around due to scrolling or expanding items would change the position of the items on screen. Even worse if you have responsive design of any kind.

Maybe @victordcq could come up with a Javascript injection but generally spealking Ctrl-left click or alt-left click is probably the simplest solution for an alternate click action.

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i could make somethign seperate, but it would not really be able to work together instantaniously...

so everything he wants to do in context menu would have to become JS

An other solution is i think the onclick does still work on rightclicking. So you can probably grab the selection data there and store it in a custom property.

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An other solution is i think the onclick does still work on rightclicking. So you can probably grab the selection data there and store it in a custom property.

I tested it, onClick is not called on right-clicking.

I think what Felipe_CRM suggested (left-ctrl click / alt-left click) is an option, but at this point i prefer to add a button in a toolbar.

The reason why i wrote this post was i thought that i missed something, but it look like the Tree is lacking some basic features.

Thanks for the help