How to add context menu to an image in JavaFX?

A context menu is a popup menu that appears on interacting with the UI elements in the application. You can create a context menu by instantiating the javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu class. Just like a menu, after creating a context menu, you need to add MenuItems to it.

Typically, a context menu appears when you “right-click” on the attached control.

Setting ContextMenu to nodes −

You can set ContextMenu to any object of the javafx.scene.control class, using the setContextMenu() method.

Every node has a property named onContextMenuRequested, this defines a function to be called when a context menu has been requested on this Node. You can set value to this property using the setOnContextMenuRequested() menu.

To set a context menu to an image view, create an ImageView object embedding the desired image, invoke the setOnContextMenuRequested() method on it.

Example

import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.InputStream; import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.event.ActionEvent; import javafx.event.EventHandler; import javafx.geometry.Insets; import javafx.scene.Group; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu; import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem; import javafx.scene.image.Image; import javafx.scene.image.ImageView; import javafx.scene.input.Clipboard; import javafx.scene.input.ClipboardContent; import javafx.scene.input.ContextMenuEvent; import javafx.scene.layout.HBox; import javafx.scene.paint.Color; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class ContextMenuImage extends Application {    @Override    public void start(Stage stage) throws FileNotFoundException {       //Creating the image view       ImageView imageView = new ImageView();       //Setting the image view parameters       imageView.setFitWidth(575);       // imageView.setFitHeight(295);       imageView.setPreserveRatio(true);       InputStream stream = new FileInputStream("D:\images\elephant.jpg");       Image image = new Image(stream);       imageView.setImage(image);       //Creating a context menu       ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();       //Creating the menu Items for the context menu       MenuItem item1 = new MenuItem("Copy");       MenuItem item2 = new MenuItem("remove");       contextMenu.getItems().addAll(item1, item2);       //Setting action to the context menu item       item1.setOnAction((ActionEvent e) -> {          Clipboard clipboard = Clipboard.getSystemClipboard();          ClipboardContent content = new ClipboardContent();          content.putImage(imageView.getImage());          clipboard.setContent(content);       });       //Setting action to the context menu item       item2.setOnAction((ActionEvent e) -> {          imageView.setVisible(false);       });       //Setting context menu to the image view       imageView.setOnContextMenuRequested(new EventHandler() {          @Override          public void handle(ContextMenuEvent event) {             contextMenu.show(imageView, event.getScreenX(), event.getScreenY());          }       });       HBox box = new HBox();       box.setPadding(new Insets(10, 10, 10, 10));       box.getChildren().add(imageView);       //Setting the stage       Group root = new Group(box);       Scene scene = new Scene(root, 595, 360, Color.BEIGE);       stage.setTitle("CustomMenuItem");       stage.setScene(scene);       stage.show();    }    public static void main(String args[]){       launch(args);    } }

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