I'd like to do the following:

Display a menu under a push button when the user clicks on the button. Internet Explorer does this on the Back and Forward buttons. EG clicking the down arrow next to back button displays a menu located under the back button with a list of the last 10 pages viewed.

I can create context menus Ok, but the user needs to rightclick to display the menu and the menu appears where the user clicked.

So how do you display a menu at a specified location when a push button is clicked?

Thanks

Dave G

David,

I haven't tried this myself but I don't see why you can't use a different context menu for the same button to do the same thing. But you'll use the CLICK event to create a different menu structure, modify the lParam to position the menu underneath the button, and then use the PostMessage call to call the popup menu.

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Thanks Don,

I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on.

Dave G

PostMessage was the trick! Now I have a context menu appearing when the user clicks the push button. Still playing with positioning but hey, i'm half way there.

Thanks

Dave G

Sweet!

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Still having a problem with the position.

I'm calling postmessage as follows

PostMessage(handle,516,0,clickposition)

516 is the Rbuttondown event

0 - does not seem to do anything

clickpos - you specify the position of the mouse here. I can change the Y position OK but the x position does not want to move.

PostMessage uses the top left corner of my button as a starting position. I can pass a negative number to move the mouseclick left, but I can not move the mouseclick down below my push button. So the context menu will appear over my button, not under it.

on MSDN is says that the low-order word specifies the x-coordinate of the cursor and the high-order word specifies the y-coordinate of the cursor. Not sure exactly what this means?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Dave G

Dave,

on MSDN is says that the low-order word specifies the x-coordinate of the cursor and the high-order word specifies the y-coordinate of the cursor. Not sure exactly what this means?

It means that the number that you pass in lParam (which the engine translates into a 32-bit integer for you) is actually composed of two 16-bit values, so you need to pack your x and y into this structure accordingly.

eg:

loWord=45

hiWord=30

longVal=( hiWord * 65535 ) + loWord

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Thanks, works like a bought one now!

Dave G

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