Popup Context Menu problem...

[BeegOrange]

Hello,

I have a menu which gets called like this:

void CCinitView::OnContextMenu(CWnd* pWnd, CPoint point)
{
CMenu menu;
menu.LoadMenu(IDR_POPUP_CRYPTO_MENU);
menu.GetSubMenu(0);
menu.TrackPopupMenu(TPM_RIGHTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, point.x, point.y, this);
}

Unfortunately, when I right click, the menu gets displayed as a thin line! The submenu's get displayed OK when I move the mouse, but the top-level is only shown as a thin line.

In the resource editor, the menu always displays as horizontal, and never saves to be vertical (like a good popup menu should).

How is this problem to be solved??

Thanks in advance!

 

[VincentP]

As explained in the MSDN documentation:

CMenu::GetSubMenu
CMenu* GetSubMenu( int nPos ) const;

Return Value

A pointer to a CMenu object whose m_hMenu member contains a handle to the pop-up menu if a pop-up menu exists at the given position; otherwise NULL. If a CMenu object does not exist, then a temporary one is created. The CMenu pointer returned should not be stored.


you should add the following to your function:

CMenu * submenu = menu.GetSubMenu(0);
submenu->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_RIGHTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, point.x, point.y, this);

I hope this helps,

Vincent

 

[BeegOrange]

Hello Vincent,

It more or less worked. I learnt a few menu fundamentals on the way. Thanks for the tip!