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Programming Talk / C++ / C# - Win32 API. How do you make a context menu?

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coolgames
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Posted: 1st Aug 2009 09:01
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How would I use the win32 api to create a context menu that would appear when the user right clicks within the application?

I've searched for how to create a context menu, but I couldn't find anything. I'm using c++, with the basic windows api.

Thanks,
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ShaunRW
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Posted: 4th Aug 2009 04:01 Edited at: 4th Aug 2009 04:12
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What you're thinking of are Popup menus.

CreatePopupMenu Function - You would use this to create your menu.

AppendMenu Function - You would use this to add items to your menu.

TrackPopupMenu Function - You would use this to show the Menu and it returns the item that was selected.

And to place the menu at the position of the cursor.

GetCursorPos Function - I Think this is the function that you can use to get the cursor position.

For more function involving menusCheck here.

Hope i helped.


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coolgames
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 04:13
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Perfect. Thanks! Knew it couldn't be that difficult, just didn't know what it was called.
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