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Middle mouse button & opening new browser tab (in foreground and background)

Added by max p almost 4 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Target version:

4.5.1

Start date:

01/22/2021

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Description

Hello,

first of all thanks for making this great project :)

I would like to ask about two separate things:

Why 'clicked' event does not fire on the middle mouse button? Let's take this: https://www.webtoolkit.eu/widgets/forms - there is a button that has assigned 'clicked' callback. It does not react on the middle mouse button. Is it even possible to handle that button?
How to open a new web browser tab in the foreground/background? I know it's possible via WLink, but my goal is to make a popup menu and open a new tab when one of the items is clicked. Currently, I do WApplication::doJavaScript("window.open(...)"), but this approach does not work for Safari (iOS).

Thanks for the help,
Max.

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Updated by Korneel Dumon almost 4 years ago

Hi Max,

there is indeed no clicked-event for the middle button (or right button). The event maps onto browser's clicked event, which only fires for the 'primary' mouse-button. I will adjust the documentation to more accurately reflect that. If you connect to mouseWentDown() or mouseWentUp(), you can get the middle/right clicks.

For WPopupMenu, you can add a WMenuItem to the menu and use WMenuItem::setLink() to achieve what you want.

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