[RESOLVED] MainMenu on Form

[gep13]

Hey

Just a quick question...

On my form I have a MainMenu control with lots of options in it. Is there a way to close this menu after a certain period of time?

At the minute, the user has to click on the menu again to close it. I was hoping to make it auto-hide after say 10 seconds.

Thanks

Gary

[petevick]

Hi,
in the popup, start a timer, and when the timer fires, do a 'sendkeys' of "{Esc}".

OpennetCF has an implementation of sendkeys, or you can use the keybd_event API

Pete

[gep13]

Noice!!!

I love the out of the box thinking!! Thanks for that!!!

Gary

Edit:

I tried to rate you but it wasn't to be

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to petevick again."

[gep13]

Hey Pete,

I have got this to work really well, and what I am trying to avoid is adding a timer to each form that I have. How can I add this functionality to each mainmenu control that I have? I am familiar with the concept of inheritance, and I already have a FormBase which all the other forms derive from, but as soon as I put the P/Invoke in there, I get a message on the inherited form that visual inheritance is disabled since I am using a P/Invoke.

How can I get round this?

Thanks

Gary