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The Hipe API
Including libhipe
libhipe functions
C++ extensions
Multithreading considerations
Hipe instructions
Interprocess communication
HIPE_OP_ADD_FONT
HIPE_OP_ADD_STYLE_RULE
HIPE_OP_ADD_STYLE_RULE_SRC
HIPE_OP_APPEND_TAG
HIPE_OP_APPEND_TEXT
HIPE_OP_ATTRIBUTE_RETURN
HIPE_OP_AUDIOVIDEO_STATE
HIPE_OP_CANVAS_ACTION
HIPE_OP_CANVAS_SET_PROPERTY
HIPE_OP_CARAT_POSITION
HIPE_OP_CLEAR
HIPE_OP_CONTAINER_GRANT
HIPE_OP_CONTENT_RETURN
HIPE_OP_DELETE
HIPE_OP_DIALOG
HIPE_OP_DIALOG_INPUT
HIPE_OP_DIALOG_RETURN
HIPE_OP_EDIT_ACTION
HIPE_OP_EDIT_CONTEXT_REQUEST
HIPE_OP_EDIT_STATUS
HIPE_OP_EVENT
HIPE_OP_EVENT_CANCEL
HIPE_OP_EVENT_REQUEST
HIPE_OP_FIFO_ADD_ABILITY
HIPE_OP_FIFO_CLOSE
HIPE_OP_FIFO_DROP_PEER
HIPE_OP_FIFO_GET_PEER
HIPE_OP_FIFO_OPEN
HIPE_OP_FIFO_REMOVE_ABILITY
HIPE_OP_FIFO_RESPONSE
HIPE_OP_FILE_RETURN
HIPE_OP_FIND_TEXT
HIPE_OP_FRAME_CLOSE
HIPE_OP_FRAME_EVENT
HIPE_OP_FREE_LOCATION
HIPE_OP_GEOMETRY_RETURN
HIPE_OP_GET_ATTRIBUTE
HIPE_OP_GET_AUDIOVIDEO_STATE
HIPE_OP_GET_BY_ID
HIPE_OP_GET_CARAT_POSITION
HIPE_OP_GET_CONTENT
HIPE_OP_GET_FIRST_CHILD
HIPE_OP_GET_FRAME_KEY
HIPE_OP_GET_GEOMETRY
HIPE_OP_GET_LAST_CHILD
HIPE_OP_GET_NEXT_SIBLING
HIPE_OP_GET_PREV_SIBLING
HIPE_OP_GET_SCROLL_GEOMETRY
HIPE_OP_GET_SELECTION
HIPE_OP_INSERT_TAG
HIPE_OP_KEY_RETURN
HIPE_OP_LOCATION_RETURN
HIPE_OP_MESSAGE
HIPE_OP_OPEN_LINK
HIPE_OP_REMOVE_ATTRIBUTE
HIPE_OP_REQUEST_CONTAINER
HIPE_OP_SCROLL_BY
HIPE_OP_SCROLL_TO
HIPE_OP_SERVER_DENIED
HIPE_OP_SET_ATTRIBUTE
HIPE_OP_SET_CURSOR
HIPE_OP_SET_FOCUS
HIPE_OP_SET_ICON
HIPE_OP_SET_SRC
HIPE_OP_SET_STYLE
HIPE_OP_SET_STYLE_SRC
HIPE_OP_SET_TEXT
HIPE_OP_SET_TITLE
HIPE_OP_TAKE_SNAPSHOT
HIPE_OP_TOGGLE_CLASS
HIPE_OP_USE_CANVAS

Instruction set reference

HIPE_OP_EDIT_CONTEXT_REQUEST

Receiving this instruction on a top-level frame indicates that there has been an unhandled context menu request either in that frame or in a child (or descendent) of that frame.

This normally means the user has right-clicked on a section of text somewhere in the frame hierarchy and expects to see a default menu of clipboard commands such as cut/copy/paste. Due to limitations in webkit and hipecore, further information is not avaiable. However, a framing manager can respond by using a HIPE_OP_EDIT_STATUS instruction to query what commands are suitable for whatever the user has selected, and globally implement a default context menu that way.

This instruction is not generated if a context click event has already been handled by the application (e.g. to produce a more relevant menu at the application level).