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# compose-desktop

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Mouse_Events#mouse-rightmiddle-clicks-and-keyboard-modifiers has been reworked recently from Modifier.pointerInput to Modifier.mouseClickable. At the very end it says If you need more information about events there is an available raw AWT mouse event object in mouseEvent property of PointerEvent but it's not clear where is that PointerEvent. More specifically, what is the equivalent of MouseEvent.isPopupTrigger - which is pressed on mac, but released on windows?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

OK, so I got this finally

Modifier.pointerInput(Unit) {
  while (true) {
     val lastMouseEvent = awaitPointerEventScope { awaitPointerEvent() }.mouseEvent
     if (lastMouseEvent?.isPopupTrigger) {
        ...
     }
   }
}

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

@Igor Demin - can https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Mouse_Events#mouse-rightmiddle-clicks-and-keyboard-modifiers be aligned with the latest changes and maybe the code snippet above? Then https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues/812 can be closed

[Igor Demin]

Thanks!

We will add information about obtaining awt events, it will be useful.

[Igor Demin]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/pull/1328/files

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Thanks, that looks good

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Maybe, since the section is about AWT events, the condition in line 236 should look at the AWT event and not at Compose event?

[Igor Demin]

I am not sure.

It is always better to use the Compose event directly, if there is a analogue of the Swing property.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Any chance to get the equivalent of isPopupTrigger? 🙂

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Maybe there's something already wired in text views for showing context menus, and I missed that

[Igor Demin]

Any chance to get the equivalent of isPopupTrigger? 🙂

At the first glance, it looks like it shouldn't be as a part of PointerEvent, as it implementation details of Popup, not Event. Maybe we can provide something like this in the future:

interface PopupConfiguration {
  fun isPopupTrigger(event: PointerEvent)

  companion object {
     val Platform = ...
  }
}

but not sure, we need to design it.

something already wired in text views for showing context menus

Actually now we open Context menu always on press, not on release. I think, we should fix that for Windows/Linux(?)

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

That's the reason why I'm asking. Ideally it would be aligned with the platform guidelines to be consistent for the user across their apps on their machine

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I think there's already something platform-specific in pointer event for macOS

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Ah, here it is - https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/[…]droidx/compose/ui/input/pointer/PointerEvent.desktop.kt;l=112

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

So it's already treating Ctrl+Click as non-primary on macOS (which is a popup trigger, correctly handled by MouseEvent.isPopupTrigger

[Igor Demin]

Ideally it would be aligned with the platform guidelines to be consistent for the user across their apps on their machine

Yes, Compose should comply guidelines of the platform, on which it runs, as much as possible for non-native application.

I am not sure about "look", as it can be the same on all platforms (or just implement some other design system, such Material), but sure about "feel", as non-native feel would look weird for users.