auto-hide for hover

[devangnegandhi]

Hi,
I was wondering, why isn't there an auto-hide option for contextMenu triggered by hover?

[rodneyrehm]

I'm not sure I understand what you want exactly. How should this auto-hide behave?

[devangnegandhi]

what happens right now is when we mover over a div on which we want the context menu to appear on hover, the menu appears nicely. but, once we leave this area, the menu still stays there. It would have been nice if there was an option that would allow me to specify that a context menu should disappear once we moved out of that area. does this make sense?

[rodneyrehm]

Well, yes, sort of.

Until I figure out how to do this properly, you could use the show event to register an mouseleave listener on your div. if triggered, and the relatedTarget is not the menu, send a hide event. (on hide event, unregister the listener…)

[devangnegandhi]

ok thanks a lot.

[rodneyrehm]

The solution is a bit hacky, as the mouse pointer position has to be compared to the position of the trigger element… but hey… it seems to work fine here.