Get the edit field for which a context menu was opened

I have a MATLAB UI that I am using the App Designer to use. On the UI, I have multiple Edit Fields, all of which I want to have the same Context Menu. However, when the Context Menu option is selected, I need to know which Edit Field was selected. How do I get which field was right clicked on?
I have tried just using the event source, but that returns the Context Menu object, not the Edit Field that was clicked on
% Menu selected function: AddChannelMenu
function AddChannelMenuSelected(app, event)
field_num = str2double(event.Source.Tag);
add_channel(app,field_num);
end

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There was a question, I think it was identical one, but the solution wasn't really user friendly. Can you check UIFigure's property of your app, SelectedObject, it might return the Edit Field component.
You can find the post Mario may be referring to here.
The UIFigure doesn't appear to have a SelectedObject property, so I don't think your suggestion will work Mario. As for the previous posting, I wasn't able to get anywhere with it because there is no ClickedOn callback for EditFields.
Then Cris' comment will help you.

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on 18 Dec 2020

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on 21 Dec 2020

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