Unable to detect right mouseclick in ComboBox

Question

I have a ComboBox that is a simple drop down style. I wanted to open a new window when the user right clicks on an item in the list, but am having trouble getting it to dete

Answer 1

As an epitaph to this question, you can make this work using normal .NET functionality; you just have to go a little deeper into the event call stack. Instead of handling the MouseClick event, handle the MouseDown event. I had to do something similar recently, and I simply overrode the OnMouseDown method instead of attaching a handler. But, a handler should work too. Here's the code:

    protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right && !HandlingRightClick)
        {
            HandlingRightClick = true;
            if (!cmsRightClickMenu.Visible)
                cmsRightClickMenu.Show(this, e.Location);
            else cmsRightClickMenu.Hide();
        }
        base.OnMouseDown(e);
    }

    protected override void OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
    {
        HandlingRightClick = false;
        base.OnMouseUp(e);
    }

    private bool HandlingRightClick { get; set; }

The HandlingRightClick property is to prevent multiple triggers of the OnMouseDown logic; the UI will send multiple MouseDown messages, which can interfere with hiding the right-click menu. To prevent this, I only perform the logic once on the first MouseDown trigger (the logic's simple enough that I don't care if two invocations happen to race, but you might), then ignore any other MouseDown triggers until a MouseUp occurs. It's not perfect, but this'll do what you need it to.