How to Right-Click by Using the Keyboard in Visual FoxPro

SUMMARY

There are several mouse enhancement utilities for the Windows environment that allow the right mouse button to be reassigned to another function, such as a double-click event. While enabling this feature may greatly improve productivity, it also prevents the right mouse button from invoking the context menus found throughout the Visual FoxPro user interface.

Although one solution is to purchase a three button mouse and assign the double-click functionality to the middle button, you can avoid this by using the ON KEY LABEL and MOUSE commands. The following command, placed in Vfpstart.prg program or at the beginning of an application defines a specific keyboard combination to mimic a right-click in order to bring up the appropriate menu for each object.