MenuItemFromPoint

[Aldo Cavini]

I have a menu bar that shows both popup menus and direct commands. I liked to use the status bar to show a help tip when the cursor passes over the menu bar commands. To do so I have the following:

1- On a %WM_NCMOUSEMOVE message I check wParam = %HTMENU. If true then
2- I pass the screen coordinates to MenuItemFromPoint. This API call works on a point (cursor position):

POINT structure specifying the location to test. If hMenu specifies a menu bar, this parameter is in window coordinates. Otherwise, it is in client coordinates.

This function does not work (Win NT4). May be there are problems on the "window coordinates": I tried with both client and screen coordinates, and with coordinates related on the top-left corner of the window.

This moment my program works correctly using a GetMenuItemRect loop (I don't like this since it is a slower method). Since both MenuItemFromPoint and GetMenuItemRect are new entries on NT4, I think they should both work (or not work). Any ideas?

Aldo

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[Matthew Berg]

What about triggering your status bar messages on the WM_MENUSELECT message?

[This message has been edited by Matthew Berg (edited May 07, 2001).]

[Aldo Cavini]

Matthew,

I get the %WM_MENUSELECT message only after I clicked on the menu bar. I want to show the help tip as the cursor passes over the menu bar (without clicks).

Thanks anyway.

Aldo

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