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CListCtrl right click menu

I want to put a popup menu for my users when the right click on a CListCtrl. I need to check if they are actually on an item, or in white space. If they are on an item, a menu will be presented that says "Edit" or "Add". If they are on white space, just "Add" will be present.

How can I do this? Do I need 2 submenus? How can I tell if an item is highlighted in the list?

waseemanis

Derive a class from CListCtrl. Subclass your list control.
Now in the Class you can put in a message handler
ON_WM_CONTEXTMENU()
and the function goes something like this :

void mylistctrl::OnContextMenu( CWnd*, CPoint point)
{

if (point.x == -1 && point.y == -1)
{
//keystroke invocation
CRect rect;
GetClientRect(rect);
ClientToScreen(rect);
point = rect.TopLeft();
point.Offset(5, 5);
}

CMenu menu;
VERIFY(menu.LoadMenu(ID_POPUP_MENU));
CMenu* pPopup = menu.GetSubMenu(0);
ASSERT(pPopup != NULL);
CWnd* pWndPopupOwner = this;
while (pWndPopupOwner->GetStyle() & WS_CHILD) pWndPopupOwner = pWndPopupOwner-GetParent();
pPopup->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON, point.x, point.y, pWndPopupOwner);
}
}

kmurphy99

Add a handler for a right click in the list, then add code like this:

CMenu menu;
VERIFY(menu.LoadMenu(IDR_SMENU));
CMenu* pPopup = menu.GetSubMenu(0);

int selected = m_listItems.GetNextItem(-1,LVNI_SELECTED);

if(selected <0) {
pPopup->EnableMenuItem(ID_ITEMEDIT,MF_GRAYED);
      }

      RECT rect;
      GetWindowRect(&rect);
      CPoint mousepos;
      GetCursorPos(&mousepos);
      pPopup->TrackPopupMenu(NULL,mousepos.x,mousepos.y, this);

Ken

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veronicas

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Excellent!