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EASY - Popup menu in VB6

Hello everyone. I'm sure this must be an easy one.

I want to create a popup menu, on the right mouse click on a form.

I have looked in the help file and it tells me to create a popup menu using the menu editor. I have tried this, but it just creates a menu at the top of the form (or actually at the top of the main form as I am developing an MDI app).

What must I do to create a popup menu, that does not appear as a regular menu?

Thanks

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

You have to create the menu as normal menu and hide it (set visible of the main part to invisible. The name of the top menu could be for example mnuPopMyForm, and below (indended) the menu items you want to see when using the popup.

Then, on MouseUp of the Form, use this code:
PopupMenu mnuPopMyForm
Using the other parameters of this function, you will be able to influence the position and the behaviour, but the above is the least you need to do

CHeers

priya_pbk

-Try this

As you have created the menu in the menu editor. Set its property to Visible=false ie the uncheck the visible property of the main menu

Suppose you have the foll
-Options (id-mnuOptions)
--File (id-mnuFile)
--Open (id mnuOpen)

and then write this...

Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)

PopupMenu mnuoptions

End Sub
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Hope this helps

-priya

DapperDan

ASKER

Thanks, to both of you.

I think you basically said the same thing. It's working now but I have one problem.

As I said earlier, this is an MDI app. Now when I click on a particular subform, it hides the main application menus, and replaces it with an empty menu (as the subform has no visible menus).

Is there a way of stopping the subform from replacing the main application menus? I suppose I could put the same menus into the subform, but this seems a bit sloppy.

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DapperDan

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OK, thanks. Using ActiveX seems a bit excessive here (:

I'll just have to duplicate the menus.

priya_pbk

oops, late posting..sorry DapperDan! I think when I was writing the suggestion, something came up. So when I completed it later(ie after 7 minutes), a similar suggestion was aleady posted.

No probs, Hope you could find a solution to your problem. That's important.

-Priya