[RESOLVED] Right CLick Task Bar Menu

[ididntdoit]

How would you make a specific menu (e.g., the file menu) appear when the tab in the task bar is right clicked (yes, the task bar, not the tray). I want to be able to access anything in my FIle menu from the task bar. Thx in advance!

[iPrank]

First, it is not hard. But if you have many menus (and submenus), things can get complicated.
Try this:

'[b][color=red]Inside a form[/color][/b]
Option Explicit
' Create a form with following menus: (keep the order)
' mnuFile
'   |
'   |--> mnuNew
'   |--> mnuOpen
'   |--> mnuClose
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
  AddToSystemMenu Me.hwnd
End Sub
 
Public Sub mnuNew_Click() '[b]Must be public[/b]
  MsgBox "mnuNew_Click"
End Sub
 
Public Sub mnuOpen_Click() '[b]Must be public[/b]
  MsgBox "mnuOpen_Click"
End Sub
 
Public Sub mnuClose_Click() '[b]Must be public[/b]
  MsgBox "mnuClose_Click"
End Sub

'[b][color=red]Inside a module[/color][/b]
Option Explicit
 
Private OriginalWindowProc As Long
Public Const MF_STRING = &H0&
Public Const MF_ENABLED = &H0&
Public Const MF_POPUP As Long = &H10&
Public Const MF_SEPARATOR As Long = &H800&
'
Public Const IDM_MYMENUITEM = 2003
Public Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112
Public Const GWL_WNDPROC = (-4)
 
Declare Function DrawMenuBar Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetSystemMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal bRevert As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function AppendMenu Lib "user32" Alias "AppendMenuA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal wflags As Long, ByVal wIDNewItem As Long, ByVal lpNewItem As String) As Long
Public Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Public 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
'
Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetMenuItemID Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
Declare Function CreatePopupMenu Lib "user32" () As Long
 
Public lNewPopupMenu As Long
 
Public Sub AddToSystemMenu(ByVal hwnd As Long)
 
  Dim hSystemMenu As Long
  ' Get the system menu's handle.
  hSystemMenu = GetSystemMenu(hwnd, False)
 
  'Get the form's File PopUp menu
  lNewPopupMenu = GetSubMenu(GetMenu(hwnd), 0)
 
  '-------------------------------------------
  AppendMenu hSystemMenu, MF_SEPARATOR, ByVal 0&, ByVal 0& 'A separetor
  AppendMenu hSystemMenu, MF_POPUP, lNewPopupMenu, "File"  'File
  '-------------------------------------------
 
  ' Tell Windows to call MyMenuProc when a system
  ' menu command is selected.
  OriginalWindowProc = SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_WNDPROC, _
     AddressOf MyMenuProc)
 
End Sub
 
Public Function MyMenuProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal msg As Long, _
     ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
 
  ' If the custom menu item was selected display a message.
 
  If msg = WM_SYSCOMMAND Then 'System menu clicked
 
    Select Case wParam
    
      Case GetMenuItemID(lNewPopupMenu, 0): '1st item of the menu - New
        Form1.mnuNew_Click
            
      Case GetMenuItemID(lNewPopupMenu, 1): '2nd item of the menu - Open
        Form1.mnuOpen_Click
    
      Case GetMenuItemID(lNewPopupMenu, 2): '3rd item of the menu - Close
        Form1.mnuClose_Click
        Exit Function
    End Select
 
  End If
 
  ' Otherwise pass the command on for normal processing.
  MyMenuProc = CallWindowProc(OriginalWindowProc, hwnd, msg, _
     wParam, lParam)
 
End Function

Modified form this code.

[ididntdoit]

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is just what I've been waiting for! Thank you so much!