Adding context menu items for text selection in PDF reader?

[José Fernandes]

Hello,

I'm trying to add a custom menu item to the context menu when text is selected in the PDF reader, but haven't been able to get it working.

What I've tried:

The new MenuManager API - Checked the source at https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/pluginAPI/menuManager.js but the VALID_TARGETS array doesn't include any targets for PDF reader content area menus.

Reader.registerEventListener with createViewContextMenu:

Zotero.Reader.registerEventListener(
  'createViewContextMenu',
  (event) => {
    const { append } = event;
    append({
      label: 'My Custom Action',
      onCommand: () => { /* ... */ }
    });
  },
  'my-plugin-id'
);
The event fires but I can't access the selected text.

Annotation context menu - This works fine:
Zotero.Reader.registerEventListener(
  'createAnnotationContextMenu',
  (event) => { /* This works */ },
  'my-plugin-id'
);

Questions:

1. Is it possible to add menu items to the text selection context menu in the PDF reader?
2. If yes, how can I access the selected text?
3. If not currently supported, could this be considered as a feature request? It would be useful for various plugin functionalities.

Environment:
Zotero 8.0-beta.21+
Testing the toolbar button and annotation menus work fine, just can't get text selection menu to work

Thanks for any guidance!

[Xiangyu Wang]

> Is it possible to add menu items to the text selection context menu in the PDF reader?

Yes. your first code will add the context menu item.

> If yes, how can I access the selected text?

Use `event.reader._iframeWindow.wrappedJSObject._reader._primaryView._selectionRanges` (suppose it's in pdf reader's primary view; you may want to add further conditions e.g `event.reader.type === 'pdf'` or `event.reader._iframeWindow.wrappedJSObject._reader._state.primary` to decide what logic to use).

> could this be considered as a feature request?

We will consider adding it directly to the `event.params` so that plugins can access it directly. For now, please try the solution above.

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