[Question] How to close the right_click_menu without selection of one of the items

[MMwur]

Type of Issue (Enhancement, Error, Bug, Question)

I wonder how to close the right_click_menu (after it has been opened with a right mouse click), by a left click on another part of the window or screen. Just as is common in Linux or Windows. It turns out that this is not happening when I e.g. run the demo
Demo_Multiline_Right_Click_Menu_Clipboard.py
After appearance of the right_click_menu, it does not close and disappear when e.g. selecting another window. It even stays on top.

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Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

PySimpleGUI Port (tkinter, Qt, Wx, Web)

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Python version: 3.9.16 (main, Jan 11 2023, 16:05:54)
[GCC 11.2.0]
tkinter version: 8.6.12
PySimpleGUI version: 4.60.4

Your Experience In Months or Years (optional)

Years Python programming experience 8

Years Programming experience overall 40

Have used another Python GUI Framework? (tkinter, Qt, etc) (yes/no is fine)

Anything else you think would be helpful?

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import PySimpleGUI as sg

"""
    Demo - Adding a right click menu to perform multiline element common operations

    Sometimes Multiline Elements can benefit from a right click menu. There are no default menu
    that come with tkinter, so you'll need to create your own.

    Some common clipboard types of operations
        Select all
        Copy
        Paste
        Cut

    The underlying Widget is accessed several times in this code because setting selections,
    getting their values, and clipboard operations are not currently exposed in the APIs

    NOTE - With tkinter, if you use the built-in clipboard, you must keep your program
    running in order to access the clipboard.  Upon exit, your clipboard will be deleted.
    You can get around this by using other clipboard packages.

    Copyright 2021 PySimpleGUI
"""

right_click_menu = ["", ["Copy", "Paste", "Select All", "Cut"]]
MLINE_KEY = "-MLINE-"


def do_clipboard_operation(event, window, element):
    if event == "Select All":
        element.Widget.selection_clear()
        element.Widget.tag_add("sel", "1.0", "end")
    elif event == "Copy":
        try:
            text = element.Widget.selection_get()
            window.TKroot.clipboard_clear()
            window.TKroot.clipboard_append(text)
        except:
            print("Nothing selected")
    elif event == "Paste":
        element.Widget.insert(sg.tk.INSERT, window.TKroot.clipboard_get())
    elif event == "Cut":
        try:
            text = element.Widget.selection_get()
            window.TKroot.clipboard_clear()
            window.TKroot.clipboard_append(text)
            element.update("")
        except:
            print("Nothing selected")


def main():
    layout = [
        [sg.Text("Using a custom right click menu with Multiline Element")],
        [sg.Multiline(size=(60, 20), key=MLINE_KEY, right_click_menu=right_click_menu)],
        [sg.B("Go"), sg.B("Exit")],
    ]

    window = sg.Window("Right Click Menu Multiline", layout)

    mline: sg.Multiline = window[MLINE_KEY]

    while True:
        event, values = window.read()  # type: (str, dict)
        print("Event: ", event, " Values: ", values)
        if event in (sg.WIN_CLOSED, "Exit"):
            break

        # if event is a right click menu for the multiline, then handle the event in func
        if event in right_click_menu[1]:
            do_clipboard_operation(event, window, mline)

    window.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
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A gui interface for plotting graphs

[jason990420]

It work fine on my WIN10, but failed on Trinket.

Not sure how about it work on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.

[MMwur]

Thanks. I did not test it on Win10. On Ubuntu it does not work as you can see in the attached pdf. (the right-click-menu is in front of vscode, which is in front of the demo
rightclickmenu.pdf

[PySimpleGUI]

I was able to click on an unused portion of the menu on Trinket and get it to close. Perhaps make an empty, disabled item that you can click on?

Or you can click on any item, move the mouse off the menu entirely so nothing is selected, then release the mouse.

I get that these are not good for end-users, but for your own testing/use it can get you a little further.

[MMwur]

Yes, thanks, that works fine for testing, e.g. by adding an empty item or an 'exit'. But, as you already mentioned, it is counter intuitive for an end user.

[PySimpleGUI]

Yes, thanks, that works fine for testing

Awesome... thanks for the update. I'm glad you're able to make progress. I just wanted to give you, as the programmer, a way to use your code in the intended way even though it's got a really weird step involved.

I don't recall this being a problem in the past. Thank you for opening an issue and doing a good job of explaining it.