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Taskbar icon and popup menu coordinates

My App added icon to the TaskBar by Shell_NotifyIcon and receiving notifycations about mouse events...Now I want to bring up popup menu after right button click. But how should I know proper coordinates for the menu ? How I can obtain coordinates of icon or coordinates of mouse pointer during this event ?
Thanks in advance.
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Sorry for bothering you, I already know the answer - of cause GetCursorPos() .
Thanks anyway
Trof, this is not so trivial as you may think.  Due to a bug on certain builds of Win95, you have do something like the following:

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (msg)
    {
        // Tray icon notification message
        case MYWM_NOTIFYICON:
            // Button event is single click?
            if (lParam == WM_LBUTTONDOWN || lParam == WM_RBUTTONDOWN)
            {
                POINT   pos;

                // Show and process menu
                // SetForegroundWindow() and PostMessage() used to circumvent a Win95 bug
                GetCursorPos(&pos);
                SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
                TrackPopupMenuEx(GetSubMenu(GetMenu(hwnd), 0), TPM_HORIZONTAL, pos.x, pos.y, hwnd, NULL);
                PostMessage(hwnd, WM_NULL, 0, 0);
            }

            break;

        // Other cases...

        default:
            return DefWindowProc(hwnd, msg, wParam, lParam);
    }

    return 0;
}

If you think this constitutes an answer, please say so.  Otherwise, ignore me.
Alexo, What kind of bug? Looking to your code I see normal behaviour - nothing that looks like a workaround
What alexo refers to is the following KB article.

PRB: Menus for Notification Icons Don't Work Correctly
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q135/7/88.asp
They say this "behavior is by design".  From now on, that's what I'm going to tell my customers about my bugs.
I'm talking about the two lines surrounding the TrackPopupMenuEx() :
  ---> SetForegroundWindow(hwnd);
  ---> PostMessage(hwnd, WM_NULL, 0, 0);

See the KB article (at the URL chensu provided) for details.
Thanks for the information
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Some people got absolutely no shame!
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Eyh, right.. :(
8-(   ???
>> Eyh, right.. :(
So why did you accept that answer?
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Because I found GetCursorPos by myself, but answer from BudVVeezer was here before I posted comment "Sorry for bothering "...