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In Electron, right-clicking in text editors does… nothing.
This module enables the menu you'd expect, with optional spell-checker integration.
npm install electron-editor-context-menu --save
// In the renderer process:
var remote = require('electron').remote;
// `remote.require` since `Menu` is a main-process module.
var buildEditorContextMenu = remote.require('electron-editor-context-menu');
window.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(e) {
// Only show the context menu in text editors.
if (!e.target.closest('textarea, input, [contenteditable="true"]')) return;
var menu = buildEditorContextMenu();
// The 'contextmenu' event is emitted after 'selectionchange' has fired but possibly before the
// visible selection has changed. Try to wait to show the menu until after that, otherwise the
// visible selection will update after the menu dismisses and look weird.
setTimeout(function() {
menu.popup(remote.getCurrentWindow());
}, 30);
});
Show spelling suggestions by passing a selection object when building the menu:
var selection = {
isMisspelled: true,
spellingSuggestions: [
'men',
'mean',
'menu'
]
};
var menu = buildEditorContextMenu(selection);
Get these suggestions when your spell-check provider runs
—Electron will poll it immediately before the 'contextmenu' event fires.
For a complete example using electron-spell-check-provider, see
here.
Created by Jeff Wear.
Thanks to https://github.com/atom/electron/pull/942#issuecomment-171445954 for the initial sketch of this.
Copyright 2016 Mixmax, Inc., licensed under the MIT License.
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