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DarkBASIC Discussion / WinAPI Menu Creation. Almost working

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 14th Mar 2009 20:33
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ok so i found this post when looking around in the forums(http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=33405&b=1) its dbp but it uses winapi calls and so i tried to convert it. it works its just not displaying the menu when i click on it. heres a screen shot:



and heres the code:



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Quirkyjim
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Posted: 14th Mar 2009 20:38
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Hmm, pretty neat, Caleb! Well done! Now I guess you can just use this for your paint program then, eh?

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 14th Mar 2009 20:48
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hahaha ya and other things hahaha oh i fixed it! it all works properly now i just have to go to msdn and figure out how to get info from it!


the thing that fixed it wwas that the constant MS_Popup was wrong while searching the forums i found a someone who uploaded a txt file with all the winapi constants and i changed it appropriatly it works now i'll upload the file for anyone who wants it! i'm exited

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AndrewT
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Posted: 14th Mar 2009 20:57
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I did this not too long ago as well, with DBP, though I didn't post about it. However I stopped working on it when I couldn't figure out how to process windows messages from within DBP--in fact I'm not totally sure if it's even possible.

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Benjamin
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Quote: "However I stopped working on it when I couldn't figure out how to process windows messages from within DBP--in fact I'm not totally sure if it's even possible."

Not natively. You need to get the address of a user function to use as a callback to process these messages, and you need a DLL function to act as a proxy to translate the cdecl (DBP's calling convention) call to that of a stdcall (WinAPI's calling convention). IanM's probably written something that can do this, and if not it's not a terribly difficult task.

Thought, for DBC it just isn't possible as far as I know.

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 14th Mar 2009 21:59
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are you saying theres no way to return the menu or item or whatever from windows?

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Latch
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For DBC, you have to subclass the the DBC window and use your own wndproc to receive the commands being sent to the window. You can write the wndproc in a dll.

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 15th Mar 2009 20:15
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oh well I can't do dlls yet lolol well it's still cool to make

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