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Catching WM_DRAWITEM

I have a SDI app whose view is a CTreeView. I want to have owner drawn popup menus. In order to do this I want to catch the WM_DRAWITEM and WM_MEASUREITEM messages. These are not offered in class wizard for the view so I put them in by hand. But as far as I can tell, neither of these messages are sent to the view. Any suggestions?

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joeslow

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Changing the filter to a Window does show the WM_DRAWITEM and WM_MEASUREITEM messages as choices now. However, they still aren't being sent to the CTreeView. Someone told me that those messages never get sent to a view but are "control" specific.

trestan

The follows is imformation from the online manual. I am afraid that these messages can not sent to a CTreeView.

The WM_MEASUREITEM message is sent to the owner window of an owner-drawn button, combo box, list box, list view control, or menu item when the control or menu is created.

WM_MEASUREITEM
idCtl = (UINT) wParam; // control identifier
lpmis = (LPMEASUREITEMSTRUCT) lParam; // item-size information
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The WM_DRAWITEM message is sent to the owner window of an owner-drawn button, combo box, list box, or menu when a visual aspect of the button, combo box, list box, or menu has changed.

WM_DRAWITEM
idCtl = (UINT) wParam; // control identifier
lpdis = (LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT) lParam; // item-drawing information