Cancel notify menu?

[Skute]

Hi,

ive got a notify menu for my system tray menu icon. and it works just great, except when i right click the icon, display the menu, then decide i dont want to actually click a menu item.

When the menu is displayed and then i click on another window to try to cancel it, the menu stays open. how can i check for this and cancel the menu?

thanks

 

[pankajkumar]

Please explain in a bit more detail!!!
Probable cause may be(I think so..)
1.Might have stuck somehwre in some loop.
2.Resources are not getting free..

 

[Skute]

basically the menu stays open after i click on another window, the process is as follows:

1) Right click system tray icon
2) Menu pops up
3) You decide that you dont actually want to execute one of the menu items
4) You click on another window, ie explorer, IE, .NET whatever.

5) The menu *should* dissappear, but it doesnt!

Any clues?

 

[Skute]

From MSDN:

"To display a context menu for a notification icon, the current window must be the foreground window before the application calls TrackPopupMenu or TrackPopupMenuEx. Otherwise, the menu will not disappear when the user clicks outside of the menu or the window that created the menu (if it is visible)."

But the thing is, the window is minimised and then hidden. Then the icon is displayed. So how can i get around this?

 

[Skute]

ive found a piece of code which has shown me the answer. make the following function call before TrackPopupMenuEx():

SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);