Thread: Context Menus

Hi,

I'm an experienced programmer, but very inexperienced in programming the Win32API. I've created a context menu on a button (just for a test). I check the WM_CONTEXTMENU message to set TrackPopupMenuEx. That works great. However, when the menu pops up and I click on a command menuitem, nothing happens. Where do I trap the menu click? I tried WM_MENUSELECT and WM_COMMAND, but neither works. The funny thing is, when I change the context menu from the "button" to the main window... everything works correctly.

Any help will be appreciated... Gary.

Yes, the button is the owner of the context menu. Are you hinting at "subclassing" here?

It will be very difficult to submit any code here since I'm using a GUI wrapper I'm creating to test the code. If it's absolutely essential, however, I'll create a "raw" test app for demo purposes.

Gary.

I'm trying to provide total flexibility to the user in the win32api wrapper that I'm developing... including the ability to provide context menus for any control they might want to provide it for.

Thanks for the tip. I'm reading the docs on subclassing and will try it soon.

Gary.