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Customize Buffer Context Menu

Wed, 02/24/2010 - 20:26 — cody

The text buffers context menu can be customized through an API provided by the Editra Message System. See the below example for usage.

import wx
import ed_msg
ID_MY_MENU_ID = wx.NewId()
 
def OnCustomizeBufferMenu(msg):
    data = msg.GetData()
    menu = data.GetMenu()
    menu.Append(ID_MY_MENU_ID, "Hello World")
    data.AddHandler(ID_MY_MENU_ID, MyMenuHandler)
 
ed_msg.Subscribe(OnCustomizeBufferMenu, ed_msg.EDMSG_UI_STC_CONTEXT_MENU)
def MyMenuHandler(text_buffer, event):
    wx.MessageBox("Hello World")
This code will create a menu item in the right click menu of the text editor area. When the menu is clicked the MyMenuHandler function will be called.