How to show addin context menu

TimWhiteaker — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:58:24 GMT

I created a menu in an add-in. I set isShortcutMenu="true" in Config.esriaddinx. How do I get the context menu to show up when I right-click with my custom tool active? In Config.esriaddinx, the portion for my menu looks like this.

        <Menu id="The_University_of_ArcGIS10_Add_in_Example_MyContextMenu" caption="Context Menu with MultiItems" isRootMenu="true" isShortcutMenu="true">
          <Items>
            <Button refID="esriArcMapUI.FullExtentCommand" />
          </Items>
        </Menu>

I thought I could get to the menu in the OnContextMenu event of my tool using UIDClass and ThisAddIn.IDs, but menus aren't accessible like buttons and tools are in this manner. No ID shows up for my menu.

I also thought maybe I could add the menu as an attribute or child element of my <Tool> element in Config.esriaddinx, but that doesn't seem to be an option since it's not in the schema.

Re: How to show addin context menu

TimWhiteaker — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:11:10 GMT

There is a solution in a similar thread here:
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/11602-Context-menu-in-ArcGIS-10-add-in

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How to show addin context menu

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