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Adding Shell context menu to command bar popup

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Topic: Adding Shell context menu to command bar popup

Posted By: gregnis@yahoo.com
Subject: Adding Shell context menu to command bar popup
Date 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.