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iuwei
iuwei

Reputation: 327

How to change the order of ContextMenu in VC?

I'm trying to add a context menu when right click a file in explorer.

IFACEMETHODIMP FContextMenuExt::QueryContextMenu(
HMENU hMenu, UINT indexMenu, UINT idCmdFirst, UINT idCmdLast, UINT uFlags)
{
    ...
    InsertMenuItem(hMenu, 0, TRUE, &mii);
    ...
}

The menu was added, but did not place the menu on top. It seems on the 5th or 6th place.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 327

Answers (1)

Roman Ryltsov
Roman Ryltsov

Reputation: 69734

You are not supposed to provide a position for your context menu items. Shell builds context menu with items/commands it obtains from several sources: its own GUI items, context menu handlers, registry commands etc. A context menu handler is requested to add its commands to a menu being built, and menu owner continues with adding items, including on top of the menu.

You could possibly set a hook to intercept menu popup and update it before it is shown to user and after it is completely built, but again - this is not what you are really supposed to do.

Upvotes: 1

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