What is the menu of the right mouse button. Context menu. What is the Windows context menu?

In this lesson we will look in detail at the functions of a very useful key, which is on any keyboard. This key is called the “Context Menu key”. It is located at the bottom right of the keyboard between the ALT and CTRL keys.

When you press this key, the CONTEXT MENU is called, exactly the same as if you had pressed the RIGHT mouse button.

Fix slow, empty, error messages and other problems. . Was this article understandable? Thus, you do not have a desktop with browser windows, and you can simply switch between pages. This article describes the basics of working with panels. To open a new panel, click the panel panel behind the last panel. After opening it, the cursor is placed in the address bar, so you can immediately enter the address or search query.

Open link in new panel

Keyboard shortcut. When you click a link, it opens in the current panel. If you want to open it in the new panel, right-click it with the control button and select “Open link” on the new panel in the context menu.

How do i manage my panels

  To move the panel to another position on the toolbar, drag it with the mouse.

The key to this button is that the one that is called when you press the menu will display the functions (menu items) that can be applied in the current program, in the active window, on the desktop, etc. Those. This menu adapts to the process in which you directly work, and it is very convenient.

Now let's take a closer look at the main options for displaying the context menu in different environments and the functions that can be performed using this menu.

Move the panel to another window

To move the panel to a new window, click the panel tab on the toolbar and drag the panel below the panel. If you have more open panels than the screen, sliding buttons appear on the sides of the panel. Clicking on them will always scratch the panel of the panel a little more left or right.

You can also click the “All Panels” button located in the far right corner of the panel and select the panel you want to remove from the list. Attaching panels allows you to open and open your favorite websites with one click. The “Panels” section - save your favorite pages and still be comfortable. Group groups are an easy way to organize a large number of panels. You can divide panels into groups, which you can switch between and quickly across all open panels.

1. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the “Context Menu” key on the Windows Desktop

For Windows 7
   When you press the RIGHT mouse button or the “Context Menu” key on the Windows 7 desktop, the following menu appears:

1. At the very top of the menu - setting parameters   Your video card.
2.  View  - setting display icons on the desktop

Read more about creating and using panel groups in the article. The context menu is usually called up by right-clicking on a particular object. The context menu, as the name implies, is related to the context of a given source object. Creating a popup menu is very simple - creating a menu hierarchy similar to the main menu, and finally creating a context menu using the following constructor.

In this case, the field that constitutes the constructor argument is the field of top-level elements in the context menu, that is, those that will be displayed immediately after the context menu is called. We can also create an empty context menu first and then add elements. In this case, we use a constructor with no arguments.

3. Sorting- setting sorting by displaying icons on the desktop

4. Refresh  - update the display of content on the desktop.
5.  Insert  - if you copied something, you can paste it onto the desktop.
6. Create.  Here you can create exactly on the Desktop: folder, shortcut, text document, archive, MS Office documents - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. (if installed)

Let's show the context menu of the form, which will change the color of the filling of the ellipse. An example of the context menu of this application is the following image. Thus, we can associate a context menu with any control. Use this class in the form.

We can check that both buttons have a functional context menu to change the style. This image shows the context menu of the last application. We can also simply add context menus to user controls. In practice, we have controls in the application that are tied to their status, and these elements display a context menu to change this state.


7. Screen resolution.  Here you can set the desired screen settings: select the screen (there may be several), find out or set the screen resolution, determine the screen orientation, as well as adjust other settings for working with the screen, such as connecting a projector.

8. Gadgets  - Selection and installation of Windows 7 gadgets. In Windows XP, there is no such function.

In the previous article, we saw how to create a menu in the menu bar. As you can see, the context menu is associated with a field. If you click the context mouse button, a pop-up window will appear. This will also happen when you click on your child. Since a menu is added to an item by its ID, it can be used with several objects. In this case, you will pop up in the client.

Here a popup window is associated with a field. The attribute was used to associate a field with a popup with the same identifier. In this case, a pop-up clip menu appears. This way you can have multiple pop-up windows and link them with different elements. You can associate multiple pop-up windows with the same element by adding more attributes of different types to the element. You can also associate the same pop-up window with several elements, which is one of the advantages of using pop-up syntax.

9. Personalization.  Here you can customize the appearance of the Worker, change the background, screensaver, sounds, theme, color of windows, etc.

For Windows XP

In Windows XP, as many of course know, the context menu looks simpler, but it performs almost the same functions.

When you press the RIGHT mouse button or the “Context Menu” key on the Windows XP desktop, the following menu appears:

We will learn how to create a hint. There are two ways to create hints. The simplest and first option is to add an attribute to the element to which we want to include a hint. Each of these buttons has a hint. The first uses the default style of the tooltip, and the second has a custom style with a different background color and font style. Notice that the tooltip element is still inside the popup window, just like other types of popup windows. By default, pop-up and contextual fields will be displayed where the mouse pointer is located.

1. Using the first menu item   Arrange Icons  we can perform the following operations:

Screen resolution  tab is configured Options

2. Clicking the RIGHT mouse button or “Context Menu” key on a file or folder in Explorer or any other file manager.

When you press the RIGHT mouse button or the “Context Menu” key on a file in Explorer or any other file manager, the menu also adjusts to a file of a certain type. For example, I clicked by video file. The following menu has opened:

The tool tip appears slightly below the element, so that it is not hidden by the mouse pointer. Sometimes, however, there is a need for more control over a pop-up window, for example, the menu that appears when you press the Back button should appear below it, and not at the place where the mouse pointer is located.

To do this, you can use the optional attribute of a popup element. It is used to set the position of the window display relative to the caller item. It has several specific meanings, briefly described below. The popup will expand to the right if it is larger than the element. The overlap popup window will appear in the element. Thus, a hint is displayed. By adding one or two such attributes to an element, you can specify exactly where the popup should appear.

In this case, the menu offers functions that correspond to the video file: play, add to the list of the player, which is selected by default for this type of file. And a number of standard functions: open with, add to archive (if the archiver is installed), send, cut, copy, delete, rename and file properties.

The following example shows how to create a back button along with a popup menu. Our example: Find files. Add a simple pop-up menu to the Find Files context menu. For clarity, the content will be the same as in the Edit Search Files menu. A popup window will appear after clicking on the first tab.

A simple menu has been added to the first tab. It will appear when you right-click anywhere on the first panel, and clicking in another place will have no effect. It is worth noting that the “text field” has its own built-in menu, which will replace ours.

If you click the RIGHT mouse button or on the "Context Menu" on graphic file, then the menu will open, which will correspond to the graphic file type:

Here you can immediately open, edit or print the selected file in the default program for working with images. In my case, this is the ACDSee program.

The global context menu contains commands that work anywhere, and the local context depends on the active element. Context menus are represented as a circle or a list. Click “Context Menu Settings” as a list. If the menu has a circle shape, you can hear different options by dragging it with your finger over it. If the menu is a list, you can hear different options by dragging your finger up and down. The global context menu contains the following options.

Reading from the next element - reading aloud the names of all elements on the screen, starting with the last active element. Copy the last comment to the clipboard — copy the last comment to the clipboard so that you can paste it into another application or take action.

  • Read on top - read aloud the names of all the elements on the screen, starting from the top.
  • Repeat the last statement - repeat the last statement.
The local context menu contains parameters related to the active element.

Here you can immediately make the selected file a background image for the desktop, it is very convenient when you select from a large list. And then there are again standard functions for working with files.

In Windows XP, there are no differences,


   standard file functions are invoked by the command Edit

I will dwell in more detail on the items “Open with” and “Send”.

How is the function "Open with" useful?

Here you can choose or assign to work with the selected file any installed program that understands the selected file format. In this case, I clicked on the video file and on my computer several programs can work with this format: Light Allow, WinAmp and of course Windows Media Player.

If there is no program in the list, but you know for sure that it is installed, select the menu item "Select a program". Windows will prompt you to select programs from the list of recommended or other programs.


In Windows XP, the view of this window is slightly different, but the meaning is the same:

If you want the selected file format to always be opened by the program you select, then check the box "Use the selected program for all files of this type".

If the required program is not in the list of recommended programs or in others, but you know for sure that the program is installed, then click the button "Overview…"  and select it from the folder where the program is installed.

Why is the "Send" feature useful?


   With this function you can say “without departing from the cash register”, you can send (transfer, transfer) the selected file via BlueTooth (bluetooth), Skype, mail, to the Desktop, to the archive, for recording to CD / DVD, to a USB flash drive etc.

3. Clicking the RIGHT mouse button or “Context Menu” key in any Internet browser.


   And here, too, the menu adjusts to different situations, depending on where you click on the web page. For example, if you click link,  then a menu of the following form opens:

Using this menu, you can open the contents of the link in a new tab or in a new window, add the link to the bookmarks, send the link, copy the link, if the link is a file, then you can save it using Save Object As .... If you have installed programs for downloading, you can download the contents of the link with their help.

If you click the RIGHT mouse button or the shortcut menu   by picture on webpage, then the menu with other functions will open:

Here you can copy the image to the clipboard and paste, for example, into a Word document, you can save the image to your computer using “Save image as ...”, send the image by mail, make the selected image as the desktop background, find out the information about the image (type, size, file name), etc.

I will sum up. In this lesson, we looked at the most popular options for using the context menu, which is triggered by clicking the RIGHT mouse button or pressing the “Context Menu” key on the keyboard.
   Namely:
   1. Pressing the RIGHT mouse button or the “Context Menu” key on the Windows Desktop

2. Clicking the RIGHT mouse button or “Context Menu” key on a file or folder in Explorer or any other file manager.

3. Clicking the RIGHT mouse button or “Context Menu” key in any Internet browser.

The essence of this lesson is to learn how to use the useful functions of the specific active environment of your computer. In any environment, by clicking the RIGHT mouse button or clicking on the “Context Menu” button, you will receive a list of useful functions available at a given time relative to the selected object.

The context menu is so useful an invention that its essence should be understood by everyone who wants to learn how to work with a computer quickly and efficiently. Employers do not like the passion when the new secretary thinks over elementary tasks for a long time and gives out the results of simple actions on a teaspoon per hour.

In general, without exemplary productivity, successful work is simply unthinkable. So, we will deal with the context menu in detail, but, as always, in simple language.

Types of menu

To begin with, we minimize the confusion that can occur in the head of a novice user.

There is a main menu - for the entire operating system.  In Windows, this unfolds when you click on the button located on the taskbar. In GNU / Linux, if we talk about graphical shells KDE, XFCE, LXDE, the differences - only in the logos drawn on the button. Well, in the names of the programs. And the concept is the same.

In GNOME 3, the menu, Gnome Shell, takes up the entire screen and appears before the user's bright eyes when you click a button on the top panel or simply when you hover over the upper left corner of the screen.

Programs have their menu  have a graphical interface. This is such a bar at the top of the window, where there are sections "File", "Edit", "View" and so on. At the end is traditionally located "Help". This is not the main menu of the entire operating system, but simply the program menu.

The context menu is universal.  It works in the entire operating system, and on the panels, and on shortcuts, and in the windows of programs - almost everywhere. Even in a terminal emulator in GNU / Linux. (True, there is no universality in the GNOME 3 shell.)

The essence of the context menu

The essence of the context menu is exactly reflected in its name: in a given context, certain commands are available for a particular object on the screen.

If you call the context menu in a program such as a file manager, for example, Nautilus on GNU / Linux or Explorer on Windows, then there will be one menu for the files, another on the empty window, the third on the header.

Many teams are duplicated. For example, “Copy”, “Paste”, “Cut”, “Delete” - all this is in the menu of many programs, in the “Edit” section, and in the context menu.

However, there is no program menu on the desktop. This is where the universality of the context menu comes to the rescue: it is called from scratch, on a free area of ​​the desktop, after which you can select the desired action. Create a folder, for example. Or something to insert, cut, delete.

Calling the context menu

The context menu is invoked in several ways.

  1. Right click on the object with which you want to do something.
  2. Pointing to the object (object selection) and pressing the right button on the touchpad.
  3. Selecting an object and pressing the "Menu" key, if one is present on your keyboard. (It can really draw a menu and an index that selects a command. The Win key with the Microsoft logo is not exactly the same, for GNU / Linux includes the full-screen Gnome Shell menu in GNOME 3).
  4. Selecting and pressing the key combination Ctrl + F10, which is on the keyboard for sure.

After one of the above actions, the list of commands available for the selected object in this situation (in this context) will be expanded. We choose the right one in the usual way, for whom it is more convenient. The list of methods is attached:

  1. left mouse click;
  2. left button touchpad;
  3. light knock pads on the touchpad;
  4. arrow keys and pressing Enter.

So, once again: a right click or an analog action invokes the context menu for the selected object, but the selection and launch of a command is done, as always, with the left click (or its analog, of course).

Practice

Understand the possibilities provided by the context menu, you can right now. Suppose you are reading this article on a laptop screen, sitting comfortably on a sofa. The mouse is not connected. Using the touchpad, we direct the pointer to any link - and press the right button (it is at hand, on the same touchpad). A menu appears in which we select "Open in a new tab."

That is, the page with this text will remain open, it will not happen to download again, if there is a desire to return and continue reading. Conveniently? And then!

Now suppose that you are working in GNOME 3 and complaining about the limited effect of the right click (the boss took it and even installed all of the Linux Mint 12 machines). But in such a situation it is not necessary to panic, not everything is so bad.

Let's, for example, use the context menu to move the window. We move the pointer to the window title - to the very top, where the name of the program and the open file is written. Right click (or its analogue in the absence of a mouse) - the “Move” command - move using the touchpad - left click (or equivalent) to lock in a new location.

The only inconvenience: to work with the touchpad you have to give up long nails, regrown or overhead. However, the secretary with long nails still no sensible chef will not accept.

Benefits of using

You do not need to memorize many key combinations, such as Ctrl + C to copy, Ctrl + V to paste, Ctrl + S to save a web page, and so on. (And in the GNU / Linux terminal emulator, imagine, pressing Ctrl + C doesn’t copy at all, so you can’t do without calling the context menu.)

Commands for opening files in different programs are added to the menu under discussion.

For example, you have installed the graphic editor GIMP - now you can click on the file with a picture with the right key (or perform an analog of this action) and select the "Open in GIMP" command.

Or, for example, you also need to quickly check the file for the presence of malicious code in it - right-click on the file - select the anti-virus scanner.

The same is true for archiving. If the archiver is installed in the system, the context menu allows you to pack the selected files and folders with such ease and grace that the bosses will simply have to increase your salary. Otherwise, such a competent employee can lure competitors.

Conclusion

Forgot how to perform this or that action? Out of my head? It happens. But no need to sit and stare at the screen, trying to collect your thoughts! This is bad for your reputation. Immediately right-click (or, of course, its equivalent) on the object being processed. In the context menu there will be everything that can be done with this object. That is, everything that is needed in a specific working situation.

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Last Edited: 2012-01-24 03:32:31

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