Add an easier way to disable right-click context menus on the canvas
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Description
Increasing access
Would allow developers of low technical skill to freely use the right mouse button in their sketches without having to copy/paste cryptic lines from StackOverflow.
Most appropriate sub-area of p5.js?
- Accessibility
- Color
- Core/Environment/Rendering
- Data
- DOM
- Events
- Image
- IO
- Math
- Typography
- Utilities
- WebGL
- Build process
- Unit testing
- Internationalization
- Friendly errors
- Other (specify if possible)
Feature request details
When making a sketch that uses mouseButton === RIGHT, students/users are currently surprised that this results in a context menu popping up.
Unfortunately, the simplest way to disable that context menu right now is to add code akin to (c.ref. StackOverflow):
function setup() {
// createCanvas() ...
document.querySelector('canvas').addEventListener('contextmenu', e => e.preventDefault())
}
However, that code is a significant step up from a simple if (mouseButton === RIGHT).
Having a simpler API to disable the context menu would be much appreciated. For example, something like:
createCanvas(400, 400, {contextmenu: false})
createCanvas(400, 400, WEBGL, {contextmenu: false})
// or:
createCanvas(400, 400).disableContextMenu()
// or:
createCanvas(400, 400)
disableContextMenu()
// or:
function setup() { ... }
function contextMenu(e) {
e.preventDefault() // still "ugly", but at least reasonably okay
}
// or:
function setup() { ... }
function contextMenu() {
return true // somewhat magic
}
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the createCanvas API and the canvas DOM/event handling related to the contextmenu event. Compare the proposed API forms and existing mouseButton === RIGHT behavior; done means providing a documented, beginner-friendly way to disable the canvas context menu, with coverage for both regular and WEBGL canvas creation if supported.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100