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RichEditControl.PopupMenuShowing Event

Allows you to customize the Rich Text Editor’s context menus.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.RichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.RichEdit.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.RichEdit

#Declaration

public event PopupMenuShowingEventHandler PopupMenuShowing

#Event Data

The PopupMenuShowing event's data class is PopupMenuShowingEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property Description
Customizations Provides access to the collection of context menu customization actions.
Menu Gets or sets the context menu for which the event is raised.
MenuType Indicates a document element for which the context menu is invoked.

#Remarks

Use the PopupMenuShowingEventArgs.Customizations property to add or remove menu items. The PopupMenuShowingEventArgs.MenuType property allows you to determine for which element (document text, a header or footer, a picture, etc.) the menu is invoked. To obtain the context menu for which the event is raised, use the PopupMenuShowingEventArgs.Menu property.

The example below customizes the Text context menu as follows:

  • Creates new Highlight Selection and Insert Picture items
  • Removes the Increase Indent and Decrease Indent items

Custom context menu for the Rich Text Editor

<dxre:RichEditControl Name="richTextEditor" 
                      PopupMenuShowing="richTextEditor_PopupMenuShowing">
using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native;
using DevExpress.Xpf.RichEdit;
using DevExpress.Xpf.Bars;
using DevExpress.Xpf.RichEdit.Menu;
using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.Commands;
// ...

private void richTextEditor_PopupMenuShowing(object sender, PopupMenuShowingEventArgs e) {
    // Check whether the event is raised for document text.
    if (e.MenuType == RichEditMenuType.Text) {
        // Create a menu item to insert a picture
        // and bind this item to the Rich Text Editor's command.
        e.Customizations.Add(new BarButtonItem() {
            Command = RichEditUICommand.InsertFloatingPicture,
            Content = "Insert Picture",
            CommandParameter = richTextEditor
        });

        // Create a custom menu item to highlight selected text.
        var menuItem = new BarButtonItem() {
            Name = "highlightSelectionItem",
            Content = "Highlight Selection"
        };
        menuItem.ItemClick += MenuItem_ItemClick; ;
        e.Customizations.Add(menuItem);
    }

    // Remove the "Increase Indent" item from the menu.
    e.Customizations.Add(new RemoveRichEditCommandAction() {
        Id = RichEditCommandId.IncreaseIndent
    });

    // Remove the "Decrease Indent" item from the menu.
    e.Customizations.Add(new RemoveRichEditCommandAction() {
        Id = RichEditCommandId.DecreaseIndent
    });
}

private void MenuItem_ItemClick(object sender, ItemClickEventArgs e) {
    var selectedRanges = richTextEditor.Document.Selections;
    foreach (var range in selectedRanges) {
        var charProps = richTextEditor.Document.BeginUpdateCharacters(range);
        charProps.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
        richTextEditor.Document.EndUpdateCharacters(charProps);
    }
}

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