Topic       : Documentation for Thing
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View Ref-FileContext menus                                                         Thing

Thing from version 1.25 onwards offers so-called context menus, which you 
may know already from Windows 95 or MacOS 8. By pressing the right mouse 
button (or alternatively also with  Control  + left-click when one is 
using 'double-click simulation') a popup menu appears offering the most 
important operations one can perform with the object clicked on.

As an example, here is the context menu that appears by right-clicking on 
'THING.APP' (or another program) in a directory window:



If possible, the popup menu will be positioned so that the entry that 
seems to be the most sensible one to use at the time lies under the mouse 
cursor so that it can be selected immediately with a further mouse click.

Context menus exist for the following objects:

∙ Directory and group entries
∙ The background of directory and group windows
∙ Icons on the desktop
∙ The desktop background

The context menu for the desktop background contains, besides the menu 
entry 'Extra' > 'Mount devices', all the icons that lie on the desktop 
and can be opened. For this the label of the icon -- if present -- will 
be used, otherwise the name of the file or the folder.

The '..' entry in a directory window offers a special context menu that 
allows one to jump to any desired higher level directory in the tree. As 
it is useful to be able to do this from the keyboard as well, it can be
brought up with  Control  +  Backspace  too.

When selecting a context menu entry, Thing evaluates the modifier keys 
( Shift ,  Control  and  Alternate ) so that one can start an application 
in Single mode from MagiC, for instance, by selecting 'Open' while holding 
down  Shift .