Re: "use" menu item in another app?

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:29

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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

Since the goal was to click the menu item,
this could be further simplified.

>    HWND hwnd = NULL;
>    char buff[101] = {0};
>
>    // App with Menu
>    hwnd = FindWindowEx(NULL, hwnd, NULL, "Target App");
>    if( hwnd )
>    {
>        HMENU hmenu = GetMenu(hwnd); // Main menu
>        if( hmenu )
>        {
	UINT id = GetMenuItemID( hmenu, 2 );
	if( id != 0xFFFFFFFF )
	{
	   SendMessage(hwnd, WM_COMMAND, MAKEWPARAM( id, 0),0);
	//  MessageBox( 0, "MessageSent","MyApp",MB_OK);
	}else{
	// it is a sub-menu or not a command
>	}
>        }
>    }

Can also use GetMenuString() to get the text.

>> As a little side question, I noticed the String I get (the Menu-item
>> caption) always is short a caracter on the end when it has an underlined

Remy mentioned your incorrect use of cch. That's likely the cause.

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