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Popup Menu displays as very thin box

Jun 8th, 2007

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie here, and have a newbie question.

I'm trying to get a popup menu to show just above my system tray icon/notifyIcon. I'm using TrackPopupMenuEx to display the menu, loaded from my application. The problem is that menu is displayed as a really thin menu, so that no text is visible. The id values 4001 or 4002 come in WM_COMMAND msgs to my window. How do I get my menu to display properly??

PS I'm using dev-c++.

Thanks for any help!
-Doug

The menu in the .rc file is:

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popupmenu MENU
BEGIN
  MENUITEM "&Config",4001
  MENUITEM SEPARATOR
  MENUITEM "E&xit",4002
END
popupmenu MENU
BEGIN
  MENUITEM "&Config",4001
  MENUITEM SEPARATOR
  MENUITEM "E&xit",4002
END

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Re: Popup Menu displays as very thin box

Jun 8th, 2007

You should really post some code to show what you are doing so people can pick out what you are doing wrong and help correct it. I have no idea on this one, but if you post some code, surely a more experienced member will be able to help you out.

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Re: Popup Menu displays as very thin box

Jun 8th, 2007

Doug,

I don't think it is a problem with the resource file. Show the code where you are displaying the menu.

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Re: Popup Menu displays as very thin box

Jun 10th, 2007

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Originally Posted by WolfPack

Doug,

I don't think it is a problem with the resource file. Show the code where you are displaying the menu.

Thanks for the reply bops & WolfPack. I found that both the resource file needed changing to have a dummy MENU containing a POPUP that I wanted to display, and the trackpopupmenu fn needed the submenu extracted with GetSubMenu(Menu, 0).

Silly me, thanks for your time though.

-Doug

Last edited by dougy83; Jun 10th, 2007 at 5:50 am.