Re: How do I hi-light menu item?

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"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au>

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Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:01:41 +1000

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"mr.sir bossman" <mrsirbossman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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"John Carson" wrote:

"mr.sir bossman" <mrsirbossman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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"John Carson" wrote:

How do you hi-light a menu(TrackPopupMenuEx) item?

Note: HiliteMenuItem(...) works...sortof. It hi-lights the item
but then when you use the arrow keys you see two hilights(yours
and the real one).

It is not clear why you want to do this.

IE style Menubar. When the user presses Alt and then the down arrow
I want the first item to be selected.

Have you seen this?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/faq/iemenubar.asp?frame=true

Sadly it is a generalization and offers no solution to my problem.

There may be more elegant ways, but to select the first item in a popup
menu, you can do the following. Add

    PostMessage(hwnd, WM_APP, wParam, 0);

to WM_INITMENUPOPUP processing and then process WM_APP as follows:

      RECT rect;
      GetMenuItemRect(0, (HMENU)wParam, 0, &rect);
      SetCursorPos(rect.left+10, rect.top+10);

Note that it doesn't seem to work on XP unless you have a 0 for the HWND as
the first argument of GetMenuItemRect. Experimentation on other Windows
versions may be advisable.

--
John Carson