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[CarlosTheTackle]

I really like being able to invoke Menu options with 'WinMenuSelectItem' - it's so much more elegant than programming the keystrokes.

I was wondering: how involved would it be to be able to do a similar thing with right-click context menus? It'd be really useful as far as I was concerned.

Cheers,
C

[Chris]

That's a good question and I've made a note to look into it.

In the meantime, you can probably automate some context menus via Send/PostMessage. Rajat's Message Tutorial can help you discover which messages to send.

If you find out a fairly universal way to automate context menus, please post it here.

[Serenity]

This would be wonderful. The problem I'm having is how to call the menu *and* be able to drag the Winspector target onto it. As soon as you left-click or focus another window the menu disappears.
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[Chris]

It might be more fruitful to monitor the window that owns the menu rather than the menu itself. Usually, that will will receive a message in response to your selection of one of its menu items. Such a message could then be simulated with PostMessage.

[Serenity]

Thanks for the tip Chris. So far I've tried Explorer and Mozilla window classes and neither come up with any WM_COMMAND messages when right-clicking/selecting something from the context menus.
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