right click conflict...subclassing?

Here's the scenario:

I've got a control (DataGrid) that I want to display my popup menu when I right click in a cell. So I have a "mouseup" routine that looks for a right click.

Problem is that the control, as part of its native functionality, also reacts to the right click event to display the standard edit popup menu.

My question is how to I pre-emp the native popup with my own?

subclassing...?

You have to trap the message - stop it from going to the window, and then do your routine instead.

Classic use for sublcassing.

OK.

Could you be real specific--because I'm new to VB and subclassing is just a concept right now.

Thanks!

Subclass your datagrid to catch the WM_RBUTTONUP message.

in a .BAS module:

Code:

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Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As  Long) As Long
Declare Function SetWindowLong& Lib "user32" _
Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long)
Declare Function CallWindowProc Lib "user32" Alias "CallWindowProcA" _
(ByVal lpPrevWndFunc As Long, ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal msg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _
ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

Const GWL_WNDPROC = (-4)
Const WM_RBUTTONUP = &H205

Global WndProcOld As Long

Public Function WindProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As _
Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

    If wMsg = WM_RBUTTONUP Then
        ' display your popup menu here
        Exit Function  ' since you only want your menu exit
                    ' if you let the message thru, then the other menu
                    ' will appear
    End If
   
    WindProc = CallWindowProc(WndProcOld&, hwnd&, wMsg&, wParam&, lParam&)
   
End Function

Sub SubClassWnd(hwnd As Long)
    WndProcOld& = SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_WNDPROC, AddressOf WindProc)
End Sub

Sub UnSubclassWnd(hwnd As Long)
    SetWindowLong hwnd, GWL_WNDPROC, WndProcOld&
    WndProcOld& = 0
End Sub

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usage:

Call SubCLassWnd(Datagrid1.hWnd)

MAKE SURE TO CALL !!! ->

UnSubclassWnd(Datagrid1.hWnd)

before you exit or your program will crash on exit. That means
you have to do this in the Form_Unload event.