Button that has different actions

Button that has different actions

[Joe Riel]

Can I create a button that has different
actions depending whether it was clicked with
mouse-1 or mouse-2?  Or with a modifier key active?
The modifier might not be feasible because Emacs
already binds them with mouse clicks.

-- 
Joe Riel

RE: Button that has different actions

[Drew Adams]

> Can I create a button that has different
> actions depending whether it was clicked with
> mouse-1 or mouse-2?  Or with a modifier key active?
> The modifier might not be feasible because Emacs
> already binds them with mouse clicks.

The answer, unfortunately, is no, not easily/directly.

Such things - allow for multiple actions, popup menu, etc. per
button or tool-bar icon (e.g. via modifier keys) - was requested
long ago, but never got anywhere.

What you can perhaps do as a workaround is to bind a single
command to a button click, and have that command test the event
that lead to the command invocation and then dispatch different
behaviors depending on the event characteristics.

Re: Button that has different actions

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> What you can perhaps do as a workaround is to bind a single
> command to a button click, and have that command test the event
> that lead to the command invocation and then dispatch different
> behaviors depending on the event characteristics.

Or try with the `keymap' button property.

BTW, you don't need to use the button.el library to create buttons.  See

    (info "(elisp) Clickable Text")


Regards,

Michael.