Find Menu from its caption

[Cliff Nichols]

I am trying to do something that may be a lil "Bass-Ackwards" but I think may be able to be done. Unfortunately the only clues I have involve the mouse being over the menu.

What I would like to do is

• Given I know the text displayed in a menu (either from file or me just knowing the caption)
• Walk the menu bar until I find a caption that matches
• Get the position the menu item is in
• Get the ID of that menu item

I know each can be gotten separately, but for the life of me, I can not find a way of doing the reverse, when all you have is the caption to go by (at least not without, moving the mouse to that menuitem)

Am I just missing something? or Mis-Reading the Docs? or can it even be done?????

[Michael Mattias]

Get handle to menu with GetMenu(hWnd)
Use GetMenuItemCount() against menu handle.
For each item, use GetMenuItemInfo() to get text or handle to popup menu item
If item is a submenu, use GetMenuItemCount + GetMenuItemInfo against those items

Yes, it is recursive.

If you don't have an Hwnd, I suppose you could EnumWindows() for all top-level windows, and check 'em all.