Codejock Developer Community : Adding Shell context menu to command bar popup http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 13 May 2026 07:46:34 +0000 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:09:18 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=22991 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Adding Shell context menu to command bar popup : I&#039;m trying to addShell context...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22991&PID=74648&title=adding-shell-context-menu-to-command-bar-popup#74648 Author: gregnis@yahoo.com
Subject: 22991
Posted: 07 April 2016 at 4:09pm

I'm trying to add Shell context menu as a popup item to a context command bar created using 

GetCommandBars()->TrackPopupMenuEx(
&m_menuPopup,
TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_LEFTBUTTON |
TPM_RIGHTBUTTON | TPM_RETURNCMD,
        point.x,
        point.y);

m_menuPopup here has a popup child item that will serve a placeholder for the Shell context menu. 

I tried handling WM_XTP_CONTROLSELECTED or XTP_INITCOMMANDSPOPUP(), and while I'm able to show the Shell menu, multiple problems remain, most likely to the weird combination of command bar and regular menu (for example, I have to use the regular TrackPopupMenu to show the Shell menu, while already in the other GetCommandBars()->TrackPopupMenuEx() ). The result is a crash on Shell menu selection, inability to move away from the Shell menu once it's open etc. 

Can this be done?

One choice is to use a regular parent context menu instead of command bar but that regular menu will not show icons and command accelerators. 

Another thing I thought could be tried was to add Shell menu items to the command bar but I doubt that it would allow to properly process Shell commands.

Thanks in advance.
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