Re: "use" menu item in another app?

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From: Segal
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:41

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Bob Gonder wrote:
> 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.

Yes that was the cause. It how gets the whole string instead of being 1 
short. I originally got that code from an example I found on google 
group somewhere, which evidently was incorrect.

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