Custom Right Click Menu

Hello,

Im on leadtools for .net v14. I want to use my own right click menu so I used the following line of code...

Me._annAuto.Manager.ObjectPropertiesDialogType = GetType(frmTextAnnotationDialog)

This works great except for one little glitch. I've noticed that if I right click on an annotation (but dont select anything) my custom dialog shows up... then if I right click again on the image (while my custom dialog is still showing) then the leadtools default dialog shows up instead. How can I prevent this from happening? How does it even have a handle to this dialog after I set the default dialog to my own?

The objects and the container have different context menus.  The menus for the objects should change just that object, but the one for the container (when you click on the image and not an annotation) is for setting the default object properites. 

Try setting the AnnAutomationManager.ContextMenu property to change the one for the container.

Similarly, if you wanted to set specific context menus for specific objects, change the AnnAutomationObject.ContextMenu

Ok this all makes sense but I still have a problem with the Context menu for each object...

(For this example lets just say we're dealing with an AnnNoteObject)

I see you're telling me to set the AnnAutomationObject's context menu... but AnnNoteObject has no context menu and cant be casted to an AnnAutoObject... so can you give me an example of how to change this for a specific AnnNoteObject?

The AnnAutomationObjects are completely different from the AnnObject derivitives (AnnNoteObject, AnnLineObject, etc.).  Each AnnAutomationObject has an Object property which contains the default AnnObject.  Finally, the AnnAutomationObjects are stored in the AnnAutomationmanger.Objects collection.

You can find an example on using the .NET help file page for "AnnAutomationManager Class".  This will show how to customize the AnnAutomationObjects.  In the example it just uses someting like lineObj.ContextMenu = AnnAutomationManager.CreateDefaultObjectContextMenu(lineObj.Id) but you can easily substitute this line with something like lineObj.ContextMenu = myLineObjContextmenu