[frankiboy]

Hi,

I've been looking around for a way to add items to context menus.

As an example: When you have highlighted a phone number and press options, you get a menu where you can select to use the phone number (edit or copy), or you can start a voice or video call.

The same happens when you select options when a picture is highlighted.

What I would like to do is to add an item to the context menu for phone numbers. When I have highlighted a phone number and press options, I want to be able to start a python script with the phone number as input parameter.

Is this possible? How?

Thanks!
Frank

[lfd]

Hi frankiboy and welcome to the forum

To achieve what you want, have a look at appuifw.app.menu in the PyS60 doc for the menu.

Here is how you use it; item1, subitem1 and subitem2 are functions:

appuifw.app.menu = [(u"Item 1", item1),
                    (u"Submenu 1",
                        ((u"Subitem 1", subitem1),
                         (u"Subitem 2", subitem2)))]

Now if you combine that with a Listbox, you do what you want:

# listbox entries
entries =[ u'Number0', u'Number1', u'Number2']

# callback when select is pressed: sends the id of the current selected item 
# in the listbox.
def lbox_observe( aId ):
    # do something with it
    pass

def start_script():
    # get the index of the current selected item 
    index = lb.current()

    # get the number at the index
    number = entries[index]

    # do something with the number

# create a listbox
lb = appuifw.Listbox(entries, lbox_observe)

# set the menu
appuifw.app.menu = [(u"Start script", start_script)]

#...

Here are some links you might need:

• Python 2.2.2 (core of PyS60) documentation: http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.2/
• PyS60 doc: http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...doc_1_3_21.pdf
• Wiki: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Category:Python

Happy Pythoning!

LFD

[frankiboy]

Thanks!

I guess what I want can be done like this, but I was expecting that I could register a program for a given data type. Just like you can do in MS windows (Assigning programs to file types, so you can select "open with.." in explorer).

This way Python will start on request, instead of lurking in the background..

Frank