Conflict with $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT and GUICtrlCreateContextMenu

[careca]

Hi, not sure if this really a conflict or im doing something wrong, but what is happening is that if i have $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT in place,

i can move the GUI around as expected, but there's no context menu, removing it the menu is back.

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$GUI = GUICreate('test', 300, 200, 150, 300, $WS_POPUP, $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
Local $MainMenu = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu(-1)
$OptMenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu("Options", $MainMenu)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("111", $OptMenu, 0, 0)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("222", $OptMenu, 1, 0)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("333", $OptMenu, 2, 0)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("444", $OptMenu, 3, 0)

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

 

Edited July 6, 2018 by careca

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@careca
I ran your script, and I could't even see the Menu if I try to remove $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT...

Edited July 7, 2018 by FrancescoDiMuro

[careca]

I don't know what to say.. can anyone else confirm this?

[careca]

Bump

[careca]

Bump

[BrewManNH]

Are you using the style for something specific? Because you seem to be using it wrong.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120620-00/?p=7333

[careca]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

What im searching for is a way to drag the gui around at "any" point and i read this at the GUICreate remarks, last line:

"You can enable window dragging for GUI without $WS_CAPTION by using $WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT in the exStyle parameter."

So i didn't think there would be a problem, what can i do to get around this, while enabling the context menu?

If it wasn't for the menu being turned off it would be fine, apparently.

[BrewManNH]

You can try these links for some ideas

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/Moving_and_Resizing_PopUp_GUIs

Or try some of the suggestions in this thread

 

 

Edited July 10, 2018 by BrewManNH

[careca]

Thanks i'll look into it.

Thanks to the link you posted i managed to use one of the methods and this was the result!

#include <SendMessage.au3>
#include <GuiconstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

Global Const $SC_DRAGMOVE = 0xF012

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$GUI = GUICreate('test', 300, 200, 150, 300, $WS_POPUP)

GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_PRIMARYDOWN, "Drag")

Local $MainMenu = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu(-1)
$OptMenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu("Options", $MainMenu)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("111", $OptMenu, 0, 0)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("222", $OptMenu, 1, 0)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("333", $OptMenu, 2, 0)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("444", $OptMenu, 3, 0)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

Func Drag()
_SendMessage($GUI, $WM_SYSCOMMAND, $SC_DRAGMOVE, 0)
EndFunc

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Thanks again.

Edited July 11, 2018 by careca