How to add right click event handler for static text in mfc dialog?

Question

Can anybody please let me know, how to add a right click event handler for a static text on a Dialog box.

So I have a modal dialog box, on which I have a static text control. When I am trying to add event handler for it,

I have only options:

STN_CLICKED
STN_DBCLK
STN_ENABLE
STN_DISABLE
NM_THEMECHANGED.

there is no message for right click. And I need to handle right click event. Can you please help me to know, is there any way to add right click event handler?

Answer 1

What you can do is this ...

1. Make sure your static control has a unique ID, eg: IDC_STATIC1. It can't be IDC_STATIC.

2. Associate the control with a CStatic variable using the ClassWizard.

3. Override the OnContextMenu for your dialog using the editor.

4. Now you can do something like:

   void CMFCApplication1Dlg::OnContextMenu(CWnd* pWnd, CPoint point)
   {
       CRect rect;
   
       m_staticLabel.GetWindowRect(&rect);
       if (rect.PtInRect(point))
       {
           // Show context menu
       }
   }