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How to implement shortcut menus

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Topic: How to implement shortcut menus

Posted By: Number8
Subject: How to implement shortcut menus
Date Posted: 12 August 2008 at 1:57pm

Hello,

Our application has several different kinds of child windows -- a graph, a spreadsheet, a text editor, etc.
Can we use some kind of CommandBar to implement a shortcut menu for each window? How do we activate the menu (presumably from the WM_RBUTTONDOWN handler for the window)?

Thanks for any advice or pointers to articles/samples/tutorials...

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 1:20am

Hello,

Most our samples show context menus. Please check them.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: MadRiver
Date Posted: 21 August 2008 at 1:45pm

It looks like all the samples create the popup menu/commandbar at the time it is needed.

Two questions:
-- What happens when this is done multiple times? Are duplicate items ignored?

-- I would like to create my context menus at startup, then display them in the specific event handler. It's not clear how to find/retrieve the correct commandbar/popup object.
For example, if I do something like this:
    ICommandBarPtr pPopup = 0;
    pPopup = g_spCommandBars->Add("MapperPopup", xtpBarPopup);
    pControls = pPopup->GetControls();
    // add controls...

If all that happens in the event handler for the right mouse click, this
    pPopup->ShowPopup();
works as expected.

Thanks for any pointers...

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:02am

Hello,

Add("MapperPopup", xtpBarPopup) don't really add it to commandBars collection but just create it and return pointer. so it will be destroyed when your pPopup will be destroyed.

Better add it to ContextMenus collection.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS