Dragging an edge from a button in a context menu of a node

[nikhil-varma]

My use-case is as follows

• Click on a node to see a context menu
• In that, there is an option to drag an edge using the current selected node as source (currently I enable addEdgeMode())
• Once I click that, I want to be able to drag an edge to a target node without clicking the source node again.

I am unable to figure out a way to automatically touch the source node on which this context menu option is clicked. I tried shooting the following events with a custom event object in this order. Yet, I have to click on the node again to start the control edge.

net.manipulation._controlNodeTouch
net.manipulation._handleConnect
net.manipulation._dragStartEdge
net.manipulation._dragControlNode

I think there is an issue already:

• Start drawing an edge after clicking an option in a context menu on a node in a network #769

Is there a way to achieve this by any chance? I don't want to keep the addEdgeNode enabled forever because then it disables the entire physics and everything and also might hijack the node clicks. Unsure about the latter though. Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

[nikhil-varma]

Posted on Stackoverflow as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75631708/dragging-an-edge-from-a-button-in-a-context-menu-of-a-node