I have a grid with a context menu to perform a number of specific functions -- save a row, change (hidden) flags in a row, add new rows, etc. This works like a charm.

The problem is that the users don't know to right-click to bring up the context menu, so all of the in-grid controls are overlooked.

Since many of the functions are row-specific, a ToolBar requires first selecting the row, then selecting the toolbar action -- a lot of mouse moves.

Adding row controls can work (Grid Demo Custom Column - Advanced 4), but there are a lot of actions that I'd like to have available, and that makes for a very wide cell (or a lot of obscure icons...). It doesn't scale well.


What I'd like to be able to do is to set up a custom column with a fixed control that can bring up the context menu. That is, something that is obviously clickable that can bring up the otherwise hidden context menu.

I'm not seeing a simple way to call function ShowContextMenu(e, grid, item, cell) or eo_ShowContextMenu(e, "<%=Menu1.ClientID%>"); directly since I'm not seeing a good way to obtain e (which appears to be used to position the menu near the point of the click).


Would it be preferable to place a Menu into a Custom Column (with the majority of the controls in a sub-menu)?

In short, for this application, I really like the idea of having a Menu that is context sensitive to the row (Item), but I'd like to make it a bit more obvious how to bring that menu up.

A way of obtaining 'e' would go a long way towards this.