close or hide or disable a menu ring or enum with programming

[bastianfranko]

Hello, I want the menu of a ring or enum to open only if it is clicked with the scroll button. I had thought with a property node to disable the appearance of that menu when left clicked but I don't know how to do it. sorry my original language is Spanish.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Bastian,

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@bastianfranko wrote:

I want the menu of a ring or enum to open only if it is clicked with the scroll button. I had thought with a property node to disable the appearance of that menu when left clicked

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You can use a filter event: filter left mouse clicks on your ring/enum control!

What is a "scroll button"?

[tst]

To expand on Gerd's reply:

You want to use a Mouse Down? event (note the ? which means it's a filter event) and then you can use the terminals on the right to either discard the event or change which button was pressed, so that you can discard a right click and turn a middle click into a right click.

Note that the button number isn't guaranteed. For my mouse, the middle button is button 3, but it might be different on different mice/PCs. You might need to have it configurable in code.

[paul_cardinale]

Have you considered just making it very narrow?

[wiebe@CARYA]

Or put a transparent decoration over it.

[wiebe@CARYA]

This makes the right click act like a normal click, and disables the normal click.

You can add this functionality in a callback VI, so it doesn't spoil the main event structure that much. But that's step 2 (or 3, or n).

[bastianfranko]

Thank you so much! I was not very familiar with filter events. It is the solution I needed.

With the scroll button I was referring to the 3rd mouse button