There are 2 reasons :

- The popup menu stop the dsp, I think it could be annoying during live session if you make a mistake.

- Sometimes you want to have another behavior in run mode (another popup menu for example, like hoa.map) and I think it would be strange to have objects with the popup menu in both modes and others only in edit mode (totally subjective)

2014/1/1 João Pais <jmmmpais@googlemail.com>

@IOhannes : I explain in @chocolate.pd, you should be in edit mode to popup
the menu (I hope it works on your Linux distrib).

ah yes. it does work.
but this is different than how it usually works in Pd (where you can
right-click even in run-mode to get the context menu; whether the
default Pd behaviour is bad or not might be debatable, but i'm quite
used to it...)

I confirm that it also behaves in windows like this. I would also weigh in to suggest that the objects should behave like their "original" versions - unless there is a special reason not to, but right now I can't think of any.

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