Thread: Javascript ctrl-click.

I'm writing a minesweeper clone in javascript and since most browsers won't let you capture right clicks I need some other way to flag a tile.

One way I am considering is control click. I found this code on the web and it seems to work for Internet Explorer

Code:

...
	if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) > 3) {
		document.onmousedown = mouseDown;
 		if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") 
  			document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
	}
...

/* this only works for IE at the moment */
function mouseDown(e) {
	if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) {
		if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") {
			var mString = (e.modifiers+32).toString(2).substring(3,6);
			shiftPressed = (mString.charAt(0)=="1");
			ctrlPressed = (mString.charAt(1)=="1");
			altPressed = (mString.charAt(2)=="1");
  		} else {
   			shiftPressed= event.shiftKey;
   			altPressed = event.altKey;
   			ctrlPressed = event.ctrlKey;
  		}
 	}

 	return true;
}

but as you can see from my implementation at
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/B.A.Collins
it just doesn't work in any browser other than IE.

Are there any other ways of capturing a control-click that aren't about 30 years old? Also I probably should've posted this in tech.

Works fine in Opera 8.5