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Disabling Context Menus

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A context or application menu is a context-specific menu of choices provided in many application situations for convenient quick access to program commands, for example, copy, cut and paste commands in an editor. The context menu is dropped down by clicking with the right mouse button in the window or on the screen object concerned. The context menu for the focussed window or object can be dropped down by pressing the context menu key, or you can press Shift+F10.

 

If you would rather make context menus unavailable so that users cannot access their commands, but are limited to the facilities made available by adaptive software, you can use the "yk" (for s-y-stem key) setup directive.

 

Follow "yk" immediately by letter "c" (for context menu), then by a status byte and optional command line, as described below.

 

The command line can be any valid command that can be executed in the WintextCom Personal Information Manager(tm) directory, not just a Windows program command line. Thus, you could assign a telephone number to the context menu key and be able to dial it from any application, for example, or perform any other WTC directory action. If spaces occur within the command line, enclose it in double quotes ('"'), but  place the opening quote immediately following the letter "y" that introduces the setup directive, rather than at the actual start of the command line; The closing quote should be right at the end, but the letters "kc" and the status byte must be within the quotes.

 


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