How to prevent selection right after a right-click

[minorbug]

I would like to prevent the selection from starting immediately following a right click (also control-click on Mac). I have a UI with contextual menus, and I do not want the selection to start after closing the menu.

I assume I would do something in beforestart, but I'm not surer where to begin.

[simonwep]

Examples?, if not then just return false in beforestart if you don't want the selection to, well, start. Please read the docs and at least try to implement something. A JSFiddle or something similar always helps and I could talk a direct look at what you've done so far!

[thiagomagro]

I think the question is more related to the event.stopPropagation(). Is it possible to preventing the click from going through @simonwep ?

[jamesthomsondev]

@simonwep An easy way to recreate this issue (On Chrome) is to right click on a selectable area and select Inspect. Not sure how you'd get around this other than to limit the click event that triggers Selection to only left mouse clicks. Perhaps another option to add to the config, e.g. leftClickOnly: true

[simonwep]

Here is an example of how you could do that :)

[LouGhys]

I'm doing this:

selectionArea.on('beforestart', beforeStartHandler)

const beforeStartHandler = ({ event }: SelectionEvent) => { return (event as MouseEvent).buttons !== 2; }

[abubelinha]

@simonwep your example links lead me to 404 error pages

[AlbertMN]

Created a PR (#163) to add @LouGhys's example in the "recipes" file.

[simonwep]

Closing this #163, thank you @AlbertMN!