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Can anyone tell me how the context menu works in bb10 or point me to some documentation. I can't quite figure it out by just looking at the API reference.
Context menus are enabled by default on a WebWorks applications. Simply long press on a image or text and you should see the context menu.
Menu has many platform defined actions for each type but it also provides the developer to ability to add new items for each type. So if you look at the API examples it allows you add an item for Image type
function addMyItem() {
var myItem = {actionId: 'MyItem', label: 'My Item', icon:'http://mysite.com/icon.png'},
contexts = [blackberry.ui.contextmenu.CONTEXT_IMAGE, blackberry.ui.contextmenu.CONTEXT_INPUT];
blackberry.ui.contextmenu.addItem(contexts, myItem);
}
I tried using CONTEXT_ALL, or CONTEXT_LINK and CONTEXT_IMAGE, adding the item ondomready, yet I can't get the context menu by long pressing, the only context menu I get is while using web inspector and it'll ask me if I want to inspect element.
if bbui is listening to the context menu event and preventing default, its going to trump and prevent the native context menu from showing.
Create a hello world WebWorks app with an image and then long press it. That will confirm that bbui is interfering and then you can open an issue with bbui I am sure it will be fixed quickly if that infact is the problem
If you long hold an image within bbUI it brings up the system context menu, if you setup your own context menu within bbUI it will show that when it is supposed to as well.
I supposed there could be a conflict if you add your own context menu to an image - that is the one piece I haven't tried it yet.
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