Re: menus and right clicking

It is normal to handle the message in the parent control of the tree
control, however I don't see what effect that would have on your
problem.

I notice you're selecting the item before displaying your menu. In a
similar situation I did this:

I've simulated the way Explorer's right click works in an application
I've worked on. Here's the essence of what I've done...

I handle the NM_RCLICK message and if the clicked item isn't the
currently selected item I save the clicked item and then call my
WM_CONTEXTMENU handler (so the same code works from the keyboard
operations).

In the OnContextMenu handler I use TrackPopupMenu with the
TPM_RETURNCMD flag. This lets me temporarily select the item that was
right clicked, execute any menu command by sending a WM_COMMAND
message, restore the original selected item. then null out the saved
clicked item:

    CWnd * pMenuParent = AfxGetMainWnd();

    UINT uCmd = pop->TrackPopupMenu( TPM_RETURNCMD | TPM_LEFTALIGN
                | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON,
                point.x, point.y, pMenuParent, NULL );

    /* Selected a menu? */
    if ( uCmd != 0 )
    {
        /* temporarily select any right-clicked item that is
         * different from the currently selected item
         */
        if ( m_hTempSelect )
        {
            HTREEITEM hOldSel = tc.GetSelectedItem();

            tc.Select( m_hTempSelect, TVGN_CARET );

            /* Execute the selected menu command */
            pMenuParent->SendMessage( WM_COMMAND, uCmd,
                    0 );

            tc.Select( hOldSel, TVGN_CARET );
        }
        else
        {
            /* Execute the selected menu command */
            pMenuParent->SendMessage( WM_COMMAND, uCmd,
                0 );
        }
    }

    /* no longer need the temporary selected item */
    m_hTempSelect = NULL;

Dave