Do not close POPUP menu

[Branko Bedenik]

Hi
I've created menu with popup menus.
Some of Popup menus items are created as %MF_checked,
obviously to check and uncheck the item.
Is there a way that popup menu does not close when
one of the items is checked or unchecked.
Thanks
Branko

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[Branko Bedenik]

hi everybody,

I dont beleive there are no answers to my question
(is it so straightforward or so complicated?)

Branko

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[Semen Matusovski]

Branko --
of course, it's possible to set CBT hook, to retrive a handle of menu window, to subclass it and to prevent some messages.
But much easy to analyze user's action and to display menu again.


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[Eric Pearson]

Branko --

At a very low level, menus are much like buttons. When you select a menu item, it is like pressing a button and Windows assumes that you are done. So your question is similar to saying "I want to be able to detect when a user clicks a button so that I can change its appearance (add a check mark) but I don't want Windows to show the button being pressed and released."

Windows does many thing automatically, but is sometimes possible to bypass those actions with subclassing (or in this case, possibly superclassing). You would need to intercept a certain message (I don't know which one, off hand), and then figure out which menu item was being clicked. If it was an item with a checkmark you would change the menu item to add or remove the check, and exit. If it was a "normal" menu item you would pass the message on to the default window proc.

But... I usually discourage people from trying to change the way Windows "basic" controls such as menus work because it tends to confuse some users. A more traditional approach to your problem would be to have a single menu item (perhaps "Properties") that displays a dialog with several checkboxes and a "Done" button.

-- Eric

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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited November 23, 2000).]

[Branko Bedenik]

Eric,
this is what I've done whilst waiting for the
answers:
I've created single menu item which displays
Dialog with several check buttons.

Thanks for help
Branko

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[K Peel]

Branko;

If you have *many* checkbox items, then a ListView control with the %LVS_EX_CHECKBOXES custom style would do the trick perfectly.

Regards,

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