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Make the Popup Menu go away! -

My program is using the Form.Popupmenu routine to create a popup menu, but when the user clicks somewhere out side of the popup menu's bounds, the menu does not go away. Is there a way to force it to disappear without using the API CreatePopupMenu instead?

 

Popup menu problem -
Hi, I have a popup menu in my app. It works, but not the way like other popup menus in Explorer or other windows apps. Basically when the popup menu is open I can't right-click somewhere else on the form and re-display that menu at mouse point. I have to either left-click one of t

how can i add a popup menu -
i need to make a new popup menu to a program.(not my vbproject) Then in the popup menu.. lets say the caption is 'Help'. I need to add a couple other popup menus. So there is Help -> other1 -> menu 1 help -> other2 -> menu1 Help -> other3 -> menu1 andi ne

Make the Popup Menu go away! -
My program is using the Form.Popupmenu routine to create a popup menu, but when the user clicks somewhere out side of the popup menu's bounds, the menu does not go away. Is there a way to force it to disappear without using the API CreatePopupMenu instead?

Strange popup menu with image -
Hay all, If you try to add images to a form menu using the common API calls to do that it works nicely. Now if I make another menu and I set it's visiblity to false so i use it only as a popup menu, the menu icons simply vanish!! they disapear. I think I understand what is going on.

creating popup menu with pictures. -
im looking to make a popup menu, when a button is pressed a menu will popup with a few submenus in thos submenus will be smiley pictures, and next to the pictures the text ( i.e. ) for what to type to make the smiley. any ideas on how i can setup a popup menu with pictures? Thanks!

Exact positioning of popup menu at different resolution -
I have programmed my popup menu to appear at a particular location (just above the button that was clicked). Now I noticed that the location of popup menu changes when the screen resolution is different from the one on which it was designed/coded. I generally work at 1024x768. But when

Popup Menu when there's already a Menu up top </RESOLVED> -
I've previously added the code to get a Popup Menu on right-clicking a listbox, but that time it was the only menu on the form. Is there a way to get two menus on my form or am I going to have to make another form and use it for the popup menu?

Knowing when a popup menu is dismissed -
Obviously I know if the user has picked an item off of a popup menu because the proper menu handlers will be called but is there a way to know that the user has clicked outside the popup menu (thus dismissing it without a selection)? I'm highlighting some things when the popup menu is

Right-Click Popup Menu -
I know to create a popup menu, you use the menu editor and set the visible property to false. I would like to have the user right-click on a listbox item, and show the popup menu. Could anyone just give me a simple example of how to make the menu visible on right-click? Thanks!!

calling popup menus from popup menus -
Okay this will probably seem pointless to most but what the hell, is it possible to call a TOTALLY different popup menu from another popup menu (and im not talking about submenus!)??? Another question, can you set the position on the screen where the popup menu appears??? Thanx

PopUp Menu Query -
Is it possible to have a popup menu when you don't have a menu at the top of the form. All my menu items are on command buttons, and I would like to have a popup menu for my system tray icon.

Quickie Popup Menu - TextBox Popup Inhibit -
I did a quick popup menu (a four item listbox) for a stand-alone form (no MDI parent). I want it to respond to a right-click, but it gets overlaid by the Textbox popup menu. How can I inhibit the Textbox popup? Thanks, John

Kill Popup Menu -
I have a treeview which gets the node on right click and displays a Popup Menu. I want to be able to click other nodes even if the Popup Menu is displayed. Effectively ignoring the last click and loading the new Popup Menu Specifics for the Newly clicked Node. Is this possible?

right click popup on listbox question -
do i basically create a popup using the vb menu editor? but then i have a ListView1 on my form, and i want it to make the menu popup when i right click on an item in the first list of the listview any ideas guys?

popup menu & subroutine -
Is it possible to call a subroutine and specify the arguments of that subroutine from a popup menu even though the arguments may be different? I'm trying to clear textboxes with the subroutine. Lets say I have four textboxes. The subroutine requires a number to tell it which textbox to

Simplest way to make a popup menu -
As the thread title says, whats the simplest way to make a popup menu? And can i make it popup on right click of a RTF box?

Right click menu in VB -
Lately the right click Popup menu in vb has changed in my computer. I no longer can select Definition thru the pop-up Menu. Where can I reinsert it in the PopUp Menu. Or how if i create a custom program, do i insert something in the PopUp Menu of another program.

Popup Menus on dual monitors -
Hi, Using VB5 - If I use a right click popup menu and the main form is on the seconday monitor, the popup menu appears on the primary monitor and not at the mouse position. Does anyone know a way round this or should I just use a form instead of a popup menu? .

Detect when popup menu closes -
Is there any way to determine if a popup menu closes? What I have is a small window and I use a timer to keep it topmost of all programs on the computer. If I click a button to show a popup menu, the menu is gone when the timer fires. I want to turn off the timer until either a selecti

Strangely accessed popup menu -
To comply with a customer request, due to their pc occasionally ceasing to display all tray icons, I have modified the start-up routine (using app.PreviousINstance and sendmessage) of the application so that attempting to restart will display the popup menu normally accessed via clicki

More Popup Menu Issues -
I have a MDI app which I have just implemented right click popup menus. The popup menus work fine but I've noticed that when I open a child form containing a popup menu the menu on my parent form disappears. How can I retain the menu on my parent form?

Simulate clicking on a right-click menu (popup menu) -
Hi all, I want to simulate clicking on a right-click menu (popup menu). How can I do it? What type of MESSAGE should I post? The problem is that the popup-menu should not be opened (just the CLICK event of menu item should be done), or the pop-up menu should be invisible. Thank

How can you create a form with borderstyle = none, and have a popup menu -
I went into menu editor to make my menu, set the top level to invisible, then had 3 options underneath. Then, I was going to popup the menu under Command1_Click using Me.popupmenu Me.MNU (mnu was its name - also, is this the right way of popping up a menu?) however, once i clicked

Problem displaying popup[Urgent] -
I have a problem in showing a popup menu on a relative position. I have a button, when the user clicks on the button the popup menu will be displayed below the button(Like drop down menu). For that i used the buttons top and left property to set the x and y coordinates for the popupmen

PopUp Menu Again -
This is a lengthy message but is worth looking at... I have been trying to figure out the problem of doing a popup menu on a modal form the past few days. There are some strange behaviour that occurs to my program which I think progrmammers might be interested to know. I try calling

How to cancel a Popup menu -
I have created an app that minimizes to the systray and the popup menu works fine, EXCEPT: when the user clicks off of the menu without selecting an option it doesn't cancel the menu. How do I make the menu go away when the user clicks off of it???

excel 2007 customize popup menu -
Hi, Not sure if this has been asked although I've searched and not found anything. Is it possible to customize the popup menu (I'm thinking no, but hoping yes)? If NO, how to create my own popup menu to replace the built-in one. Thkx

Menu Wont pop-up in systray -
Sups all, In my last app i used a popup menu in the systray and all worked perfect. In my correct app, I wanna use a popup menu in the systray too, but it just wont popup. (i can minimized to systray but cant popup the menu. Clicks on the icon wont do nuthin.) i'm using the same cod

Right Click Popup Menu Over and Over -
I have a treeview control and I want the ability to right click on an item and have a popup menu show up. I can get this part to work the next part is where I have the problem. While the popup menu is still up I cannot right click on a different item until the the popup is addressed. I

Help Please ! Popup bug ;( -
Hi ! I have a great problem here and it's really bugging me off ! Moreover I have to find it pretty quickly because i have more work to do. So here is the problem : I'm using MDI ... In that MDI Main Window I have a menu (File, Window, About ...), that i build with the menu edi

popup menu in textboxs -
yea hey, when u right click in a textbox(with text in it) it popups witha menu, but i have a code in there for mouse down for rightclick, but then the popup menu comes up, how can i stop the menu from not poping up/

systray Popup menu -
hi, My Application is minimised to systray ,the momemt it is started. When i right Click on the Systray Icon..the popup menu for the Application is displayed....Now when I pressthe ESC Key or Click on any other area . the popup menu is not disappearing ...it is still visible.....Ho

Menu in a Coolbar!! GRRRR!!! -
Ok...the only thing I can come up with is to Create a Fake menu for the coolbar (or add the boring regular form menu...no!) Now I know I can add lables to the coolbar and on click add a popupmenu or whatever.... Now what I want to know is there a way to still make the mousemove w

Popup menus from tray icons..... -
Okay i got a problem, i have got an icon into the tray menu, and a popup menu to open when it is clicked on, the only thing is, is that when i click somewhere else on the task bar the popup menu is still open, anyone know how i can change that??? Another thing is is there a way of mak

Block Popup Menu -
Hi,can someone please tell me about block popup menu..i really want to know.. It always noticed "please disable your pop up blocker to view" or the popup is blocked even a Block Popup is unchecked .. I dont understand why me must prevent popup from appearing..sometimes it g

right click to select row -
I have a FlexGrid and I use a popup menu on a right click. My problem is that I cannot make the row change on a right click before the popup menu appears. For example, if the user left clicked on row 1 and then right clicked on row 10, I would like for row 10 to become highlighted be

Popup Menu Position -
I created a popup menu through API, and I want it to act a certain way when it's near the edge of the screen. Usually, when you have a popup menu appear near the edge of the screen, if the menu is wider than the distance it popped from the edge, the menu will pop out from the opposite

another quetion.. -
hi all any one know a way to get bounding rectangle of a popup menu? i've used GetWindowRect API with hWnd param is popup menu handle, but hasn't return correct popup menu bounding rectangle.. i dont know why? does any one help me out? thanx for advice.. angelfire

heavy question... very hard core I think... -
I have made a small app that has a TreeView control that lists the contents of my computer... now i wan't to make a popup menu for each item, but now come's the hard question... how can i make a popup menu that will show the preview of an image in the menu itself... For exampl

Menu popup on rightclick in a combobox -
is there anyway to make it so when u right click in a combo box, a menu will popup? combo boxes dont have on mousedown so i cant just do popupmenu mnuMain