Use right-click with Windows Forms Button

Question

I am writing an app where the user should be able to alter the action of a button.

The user should right-click a button, and choose an option from a pop-up context menu. Once the choice has been made the button will perform a different action when the user uses a normal click.

I've already gotten the "Click" event working for a normal button click, however the "MouseClick" event handler isn't working correctly.

The "MouseClick" event gets activated on regular left-clicks, but never get's called for right-click.

Is there some default event handling being performed that is ignoring that right-click?

Answer 1

If you want to display a context menu with actions to choose from it should be enough to assign a ContextMenuStrip to the ContextMenuStrip property. There is usually no need to manually handle the mouse events for that.

Answer 2

I'm sorry to say that this would be a serious UI blooper. Perhaps it would make more sense to add a small combobox next to the button.

Perhaps something like this?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/buttons/SplitButton.aspx

Answer 3

In Button (and certain other controls), the MouseClick event is only fired for the left button. Refer to MSDN.

If you want to know about the right button, respond to the MouseUp event--though as other posters have pointed out, this isn't a great UI idiom.