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PopupMenu Alignment

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Topic: PopupMenu Alignment

Posted By: amstel
Subject: PopupMenu Alignment
Date Posted: 11 March 2004 at 6:38am

How to center a popupmenu in a screen or align at a button ??

Thanks

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Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 11 March 2004 at 7:27am

To center a popup menu on the screen you just pass in the x and y coordinantes of the screen to the CommandBars.ShowPopup method. I believe this will only work for command bars of type xtpBarPopup, but I could be wrong.

       Set Popup = CommandBars.Add("Popup", xtpBarPopup)
        With Popup.Controls
         &nbs p; .Add xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_NEW, "&New"
         &nbs p; .Add xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_OPEN, "&Open"
         &nbs p; .Add xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_SAVE, "&Save"
        End With
        Popup.ShowPopup 100, 100

Hope this helps.

Posted By: robs
Date Posted: 11 March 2004 at 8:04am

Also note that supplying the x,y is optional. If they are omitted, the popup will display at the current screen cursor position.

Posted By: amstel
Date Posted: 11 March 2004 at 11:06am

Ok, but coordinates is coordonates of the screen !!!

I want show a popupMenu in the form at coordinate of this form... It is possible ?

Posted By: amstel
Date Posted: 13 March 2004 at 9:00am

It's not possible ????

Posted By: robs
Date Posted: 13 March 2004 at 11:52am

amstel:

Paste this code in the DynamicPopus sample. Does it do what you would expect?

Private Sub frameChild_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
Dim p As XtremeCommandBars.CommandBar
Set p = CommandBars.Add("Test", xtpBarPopup)
p.Controls.Add xtpControlButton, ID_FILE_OPEN, "Test"

p.ShowPopup , X, Y

End Sub

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 13 March 2004 at 1:47pm

It appears that this method will only accept constant values as parameters. Any time you pass in a value generated at runtime it will use the x and y coords of the mouse. I did several tests and I have found no way to make this work. It only appears to work in the MouseDown event because you expect the popup to be displayed where you clicked with the x and y passed to the event. But the values passed to the event do nothing in the showpopup method. Try changing the value of x and y with a value stored in a variable, if you hard code it like x=100, that will work but that is no good at runtime. But x=me.width will not work because it is not a constant. I can think of a couple ugly workarounds, but it would be nice to pass in a variable as x and y.

Posted By: robs
Date Posted: 13 March 2004 at 2:20pm

SuperMario is right. I assumed that the x and y would come from a mouse event (as they normally are when showing a popup). I tried a bunch of workarrounds, but came up short so far.