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handling System Menu item click

Author
27 Jul 2006 8:57 PM
iwdu15
hi, i added an item to the system menu for every application (looping through
each process and using the MainWindowHandle to get the handle, the using the
GetSystemMenu and AppendMenu APIs to add a menu item) but now i need to have
each application do somethiong when the item is selected....how can i do
this? thanks
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Author
27 Jul 2006 9:58 PM
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
"iwdu15" <jmmgoalsteratyahoodotcom> schrieb:
> hi, i added an item to the system menu for every application (looping
> through
> each process and using the MainWindowHandle to get the handle, the using
> the
> GetSystemMenu and AppendMenu APIs to add a menu item) but now i need to
> have
> each application do somethiong when the item is selected

Solution for your own application:

<URL:http://dotnetrix.co.uk/menus.html>
-> "Adding Menu Items to the Window Menu(AKA System Menu)"

Maybe you'll have to use a Win32 hook to subclass the windows.

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