Subj : Re: Context menu
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Gary Setter
Date : Wed Aug 18 2004 09:52 am


"MarvinAvery" <marvin.avery@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca> wrote in message
news:412240b8@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi.
>
> In my app, I have a window that contains a number of child windows, one of
> which is an edit control. This window processes the WM_CONTEXTMENU message
> to popup my own context menu whenever the user clicks the right mouse
button
> over any of the controls in this window.
>
> However, since this is a 32-bit app (BC5.02 under WIN2K) the edit control
> has its own context menu that pops up if the right mouse button click
occurs
> over it. Is there an *easy* way of preventing this so that only my context
> menu pops up? That is, a way other than writing my own code to intercept
and
> process the WM_CONTEXTMENU message within the edit control.
>
> TIA
>
> -- 
> Marvin Avery
> marvin.avery@sdc-dsc.gc.ca
>

It works for me. I made an Owl app, dialog based that has an edit control.
I have a handler for WM_CONTEXTMENU which creates a popup menu.
The normal cut/copy/paste context menu does not appear.

This is my handler code
//
// Build a response table for all messages/commands handled by the
application.
//
DEFINE_RESPONSE_TABLE1(ContextEdit, TEdit)
//{{ContextEditRSP_TBL_BEGIN}}
  EV_WM_CONTEXTMENU,
//{{ContextEditRSP_TBL_END}}
END_RESPONSE_TABLE;

void ContextEdit::EvContextMenu(HWND childHwnd, int x, int y)
{
//    TEdit::EvContextMenu(childHwnd, x, y);

   HWND hWnd = *this;
 TPopupMenu pop;
   pop.AppendMenu(MF_BYPOSITION ,0,"Hi there");
   pop.TrackPopupMenu(TPM_CENTERALIGN,x,y,0,hWnd);
  // INSERT>> Your code here.

}

Are you receiving any messages at the edit control? Are you subclassing the
edit control?

Best regards,
Gary

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