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Hi, how can I select another application's main menu (such as File) without using Sendkeys (which might be interfered with by the user)? If the menu isn't a dropdown menu, you can use GetMenuItemID and then PostMessage to call the menu, but GetMenuItemID returns -1 if the menu is a dropdown.
If you're curious why I need to select a main menu item, it's because my app replicates another menu and one of the external menus has dynamically enabled/disabled submenus that aren't enabled/disabled until the Edit menu (which has 28 submenus) is selected.
Thanks in advance,
Wade
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Ok, you can use GetMenuItemInfo to get a menu ID even if it's a dropdown and then PostMessage to select it, which is working (the return value is nonzero). But this doesn't force the menu to dropdown so the other app doesn't refresh itself. :( I'm using:
Code:
retval = PostMessage(Hwindow, &H111, tMenuItemInfo.wID, 0)
What constant can I use to force it to dropdown?
Thanks in advance,
Wade
[Edited by WadeD on 03-27-2000 at 03:41 PM]
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Anyone? :( I just want to select the Edit menu of an external app so that it refreshes itself (that's the way the external app works), but do this in a way that's transparent to the user so that I can check its submenus' states and enable/disable mine accordingly. I'm subclassing my app; using WM_INITMENUPOPUP, I can detect when the user selects my Edit menu and do processing before it drops, but I'm unable to replicate the menu states of the other app unless I manually select the other app's Edit menu and then come back to mine.
Thanks,
Wade :(
