dear brother, can you tell me how to hook the messages of a short-cut menu?

[nenfa]

dear brother, can you tell me how to hook the messages of a short-cut menu? for example, the short-cut menu on the desktop

[_Superman_]

Menu commands are sent using WM_COMMAND. You should be able to intercept them using SetWindowsHookEx with WH_CALLWNDPROC.

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[nenfa]

i can see one message WM_ENTERMENULOOP that sends to menu, but i don't see any messages of mouse sent to menu, how can i hook these message

[Lost User]

sunen wrote:

for example, the short-cut menu on the desktop

What exactly do you mean by this, the start menu or the context menu (right-click)?

[nenfa]

aha, what i want is the context menu, thank you

[Lost User]

sunen wrote:

what i want is the context menu

In that case I think you may have to hook the WM_CONTEXTMENU message. See the MSDN docuentation for more details.

[nenfa]

i have seen the msdn, but i still have no idea to implement it , can you give me some tips, thank you very much

[nenfa]

maybe i need clear what i exactly want? the scene: i have right-clicked on the desktop, so i receive the WM_CONTEXTMENU message and get one short-cut menu, now i am operating mouse and produce some message, for example, WM_MOUSEMOVE, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, and so on, the key point is how can i hook these message?

[Lost User]

You need to use the SetWindowsHookEx()[^] function to monitor the messages going through the system, then activate whatever you need when you see the message that you are interested in. The following CodeProject Article[^] explains how you can utilise this feature.