The ExContextMenu component provides a flexible way to display and manage context menus within applications. Also known as contextual, shortcut, popup, or pop-up menus, context menus appear in response to user interactions such as a right-click operation. They offer quick access to commands and actions that are relevant to the current context, helping improve usability and workflow efficiency.
While they may seem similar at first glance, exContextMenu and exPopupMenu are fundamentally different. Both components provide shortcut context menus, but their capabilities differ significantly. ExPopupMenu relies on the standard Windows system menu, meaning it is constrained by the limitations of what the system menu can offer.
In contrast, ExContextMenu is not based on the Windows system menu and supports a wide range of advanced features that ExPopupMenu does not, including:
Built-in editors, assign controls like edit, mask, color, font, spin, slider, scrollbar, progress, and more to any item
ActiveX support, embed any ActiveX control inside a submenu
Incremental Search, filter and display items matching typed characters in real-time
Item grouping, organize items into groups and display them horizontally or vertically as submenus
Skinning support, apply custom skins to any menu item