Catching "shortcut menu selection" in subpanel

[Francois Normandin]

Is there a way to have the VI running in a subpanel catch the right clicks (User menu) instead of the parent VI?

A right-click on an empty subpanel returns "SubPanel" for the SubObj class name.

When a subPanel is loaded, it will return the subpanel's control/indicator class. However the "User Menu Selection" event will run in the parent VI. Anyone knows a way around that?

[drjdpowell]

I’ve used User Menus in VIs in sub panels before without problem. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the issue.

[Francois Normandin]

I made this test VI to show what I have. It seems I always get "one parent up" when I embed subpanels within subpanels... Weird.

http://screencast.com/t/jNX95hOCFS

(LV2011) DropVIContent_PaneUserSelection.vi

[mje]

Very nice demo of the behavior.

[asbo]

Very nice demo of the behavior.

Beautiful, in a way.

[drjdpowell]

Oh, I didn’t know your were talking about Panes. I’ve not done that; just User Menus from controls inside a sub panel, which work fine.

[Ravi Beniwal]

If you can fit the subpanel to pane, it shouldn't be a problem. If you can not, can you put a transparent tab control (fit to pane) behind the subpanel and use the menu activation of the tab instead?

[Francois Normandin]

I hadn't thought about the fact that I use "Pane:User Menu Activation" vs any other object directly. But it doesn't seem to be the culprit. It behaves actually as if I had made the subpanel with "transparent background", which it is not.

Ravi, thanks for the workaround. For now, it will do just fine.

[asbo]

If you can fit the subpanel to pane, it shouldn't be a problem. If you can not, can you put a transparent tab control (fit to pane) behind the subpanel and use the menu activation of the tab instead?

Man, you are on fire with the transparent tricks.

[mje]

I'm still curious if the behavior that is shown is by design or a fault. At best it seems peculiar to me...

[Francois Normandin]

I think it is a fault, but it would be desired behavior for transparent subpanels.

I just remembered AQ wanting to be able to click through a transparent subpanel. It's almost funny that the right-click works the way he wants but not the left-click...