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Jader Dias
Jader Dias

Reputation: 90475

How to discover the method that is called by a Windows Context Menu item?

When you click the right mouse button on your clean desktop it opens a context menu. Each item there is a call to a method. To programmatically call those methods, first I need to know which one I want. IIRC there is a tool that helps with that, but I can't remember its name.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 276

Answers (2)

Adrian Cantu
Adrian Cantu

Reputation: 11

Use Spy++ to find the handle and use SendMessage / PostMessage. It will be something similar to:

hwnd = FindWindow(...)
hmenu = GetMenu(hwnd)
hsubmenu = GetSubMenu(hmenu, 0)
menuid = GetMenuItem(hsubmenu, 1)
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_COMMAND, menuid, 0)

Upvotes: 1

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 941635

You cannot call such a method in another process. You could try to inject the WM_COMMAND message that a context menu usually generates with SendMessage. Use Spy++ to find out what that message might be, if it exists.

Upvotes: 2

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