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Accessing the system menu using WinMenuSelectItem?

 
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skrommel



Joined: 30 Jul 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:03 am    Post subject: Accessing the system menu using WinMenuSelectItem? Reply with quote
Smile How do I access the system menu silently? I've found no options in WinMenuSelectItem, and using Alt-Space flickers the menu.

Maybe there should be a WinMenuSelectItem,Window,,0&,1&?

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Sean



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think WinMenuSelectItem applies to the normal menu, i.e., the menu bar.
Try this for SysMenu, seems to work:

Code:

nIndex := 3   ; 0-based index of the item

WinGet, hWnd, ID, A

hSysMenu := DllCall("GetSystemMenu", "Uint", hWnd, "int", False)
nID := DllCall("GetMenuItemID", "Uint", hSysMenu, "int", nIndex)

PostMessage, 0x112, nID, 0, , ahk_id %hWnd%   ; WM_SYSCOMMAND

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skrommel



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:00 am    Post subject: Sub menus Reply with quote
Smile Fantastic!

I want to use it to access the Edit menu of command windows, so I'll have to find the sub menus, too.

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Sean



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Sub menus Reply with quote
skrommel wrote:
I want to use it to access the Edit menu of command windows, so I'll have to find the sub menus, too.

You can obtain the submenu by its index as an item in the menu. So, the code would look like:

Code:

nIndex0 := 7   ; 0-based index of the SubMenu in SysMenu
nIndex1 := 3   ; 0-based index of the item in the SubMenu

WinGet, hWnd, ID, A

hSysMenu := DllCall("GetSystemMenu", "Uint", hWnd, "int", False)
; nID := DllCall("GetMenuItemID", "Uint", hSysMenu, "int", nIndex0) ; produce -1 for a SubMenu item
hSubMenu := DllCall("GetSubMenu", "Uint", hSysMenu, "int", nIndex0)
nID := DllCall("GetMenuItemID", "Uint", hSubMenu, "int", nIndex1)

PostMessage, 0x112, nID, 0, , ahk_id %hWnd%   ; WM_SYSCOMMAND

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:43 am    Post subject: Thanks Reply with quote
Smile There's nothing like working code! Thanks!

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