"Show the context menu" JavaScript function

[xchs]

contao-uncompressed.js:L1717: are the element attributes el.title and el2.title somehow populated with a value?

[leofeyer]

What exactly do you mean?

[xchs]

While testing yesterday I came across the issue that the title attributes in the anchor elements are actually empty. Just open the back end module "Articles" and right-click on an arbitrary edit icon (pencil icon) to show-up the context menu. All the links there have a title attribute, however, without any attribute value.

Perhaps it has something to do with the new MooTools tooltips introduced in Contao 3 (since it actually worked until Contao 2.11.x).

Anyway, if it is pretty much time-consuming or complicated to accomplish this issue, just leave it as it is. No one will blame, I suppose.

[leofeyer]

Did you check this in the source code or with Firebug? The MooTools script removes the original title attributes so they are not shown by the browser and adds a data attribute instead. Therefore, if you inspect elements using Firebug, it seems like an empty title attribute, however, it is not.

[xchs]

I checked this with the Firefox function "View Selection Source" (a Firefox context menu function).

[leofeyer]

Ok, so please cross-check in the page source and then close the ticket :)

[xchs]

Dass die title Attribute in der "normalen" Quelltextansicht vorhanden sind und allesamt einen Wert haben, ist schon klar. Der Tooltip mit dem title-Attribut wird ja richtigerweise auch angezeigt, wenn beispielsweise im Browser JavaScript deaktiviert ist:

Hier geht es allerdings um die Frage, wieso die beiden Links im diesem Kontextmenü

nun keine Tooltips mehr anzeigen. Ich würde meinen, der Grund liegt eben darin, dass bei aktiviertem JavaScript und seit Version 3.0 das title-Attribut nicht mehr richtig befüllt wird. Dass es vorher (z.B. unter 2.11) noch anders war, kann leicht überprüft werden bzw. zeigt auch dieses Bild:

Nun gut, wie schon gesagt, das soll jetzt nicht unser größtes Problem sein, deshalb folge ich auch Deiner Empfehlung und schließe das Ticket.

[leofeyer]

Ach so, dann meinte ich etwas anderes. Die Empfehlung bezüglich Schließen bezog sich auf die Annahme, dass Du falsch lagst. Aber ich lag falsch :)

[psi-4ward]

Zum Thema Kontextmenü beim Edit-Button - ich finde die Usability extrem schlecht! Selbst erfahrene Contao Anwender kennen diese Feature nicht und ich hatte schon ein Ticket mit "Head-Einstellungen können nicht bearbeitet werden". Es ist die einzige Stelle an der ein Kontextmenü verwendet wird - das schnallt fast niemand. Wir sollten uns hier eine Alternative überlegen.

[leofeyer]

Bin für alternative Vorschläge offen.

[psi-4ward]

Gut, ich hab da eine konkrete Idee. Ich bastel nächste Woche nen mal nen POC

[xchs]

Apparently, the back end context menu function does no longer work in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser.

Who would have thought it? W00t! 😒

Console JS error message:

Meldung: Das Objekt unterstützt diese Eigenschaft oder Methode nicht.
Zeile: 18
Zeichen: 722
Code: 0
URI: http://st2.develop.contao.local/assets/js/1054262fe604.js

[Contao 3.0.RC1 Commit: f796f96]

[leofeyer]

I just tried it (VirtualBox, Windows 7, IE9 in IE8 mode) and it worked like a charm. Which function causes the error on your system?

[xchs]

Just hover (one or two times and wait some second) over an icon in the back end and you'll get:

Meldung: Das Objekt unterstützt diese Eigenschaft oder Methode nicht.
Zeile: 4
Zeichen: 87720
Code: 0
URI: http://st2.develop.contao.local/assets/js/1054262fe604.js


Meldung: Das Objekt unterstützt diese Eigenschaft oder Methode nicht.
Zeile: 18
Zeichen: 722
Code: 0
URI: http://st2.develop.contao.local/assets/js/1054262fe604.js

As far as I can see, the first entry refers to mootools-more-uncompressed.js#L6707

The second one refers to Mootao-uncompressed.js#L105

Looks like an issue with the MooTools Tips.

[leofeyer]

Can you check whether 13fc08a fixes this issue as well?

[xchs]

Very good! Seems to be working now with the MooTools Tips (regarding the mentioned JavaScript errors above).

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However, I just checked the context menu functionality again, and there I still encounter the same issue as mentioned above: the two context menu links do not work.

• open the back end module "Articles"
• right-click on the edit (pencil) icon for e.g. the article "Home"
• either click on "Edit article" or "Edit article settings"
• nothing happens – no JavaScript error, just nothing

Nonetheless, perhaps @psi-4ward found meanwhile another (maybe better) solution for this feature (as he announced two months ago)

[leofeyer]

@psi-4ward What is the status of your POC?

[leofeyer]

I have removed the context menu entirely in a974334. Besides being buggy in IE, @psi-4ward pointed out to me yesterday that touch-based devices like the iPad do not support right-clicks and thus the context menu is not usable there at all.

We might come up with a better context menu in the future, but for now, I am going to close this ticket.

[xchs]

//Huh, no email notification today #fail

[pmmueller]

Uff. That means a new icon almost everywhere in the backend. And potentially a lot of new last minute screenshots...

[leofeyer]

Sorry for that, Peter. I had to fix this somehow, though :(

[backbone87]

How about a generel "more" menu, triggered by left click/hover?

[pmmueller]

@leo Don't feel sorry, it's a great fix!

I have already fixed the screenshots. There were A LOT LESS than I feared. Even the text has been been updated to remove references to the context menu.

Plus I really LIKE the new icon. Saves a lot of clicks, and I always forgot to click with the right mouse button ;-)