Closing PopUp Menus w/out clicking a menu item?

**OhYeahLach** · Jan 24th, 2001, 11:09 AM

How do close a popup menu without clicking on a menu item?

I have a popupmenu appear when you click on an icon in the system tray. I want it to disappear when you click outside of the popupmenu object.

Any ideas?

**Babbalouie** · Jan 24th, 2001, 11:16 AM

Hmmm...I thought it automtically closes when you clicked outside of the menu...The Escape key closes open menus...maybe you could use the SendKeys function to send an Escape key code sequence?

**OhYeahLach** · Jan 24th, 2001, 11:23 AM

Actually the Escape doesn't work either.

**Static** · Jan 24th, 2001, 11:24 AM

I wound up just ignoring it LOL!

i could not figure out what to do..sooo....

but i wonder if somehow you could get the current window with focus (mybe a timer) and if its not yours then....

?? maybe?

Jan 24th, 2001, 11:46 AM

Use the SetForegroundWindow API function.

Code:

Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow _
Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long 


SetForegroundWindow Me.hWnd

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