Modifying the right click menu in a document.

[gcrews]

I searched though the Xmetal documentation and all I could find on modifying the right-click menu was the function Application.AppendMacro(). It seems as though you can't use that to add submenus or position the new item though. Is there some way to do that?

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[Derek Read]

The context menu can be modified using the same APIs as the regular menus (same names but on the ActiveContextMenu object, and you should do it inside the On_Context_Menu event).

If you add a menu item to the context menu you can then add a menu item to that item (treat what you just added as an object), and as soon as you do so the first one becomes a sub-menu, with the second item(s) inside it.

The documentation doesn't have any good examples for doing this, but this demo script contains an example:

http://forums.xmetal.com/index.php/topic,738.0.html

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[gcrews]

Thank you, that are exactly what I needed. I have another question now but I think the demo_contextMenuElemListAttrInsp.mcr answered it.

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[gcrews]

Ok I got my macro code write, now I’m trying to figure out what macro file to put it in.
I was just coding it in topic_ditabase.mcr but I want my code to apply to topics, concept, task, and reference.
I also don’t want put the code in any macro files that may have custom macros by users.
What would be the best file to put my macro code in? 
I tried in the startup folder, database.mcr, ditabase_ditabase.mcr , macros.mcr, and xmetal.mcr but none of those places seemed to  have my On_Context_Menu code triggered in a topic file.
Would I have to  copy and paste my  macro code into 4 different  dtd macros?

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