How to distinguish between context menu and top-level menubar?

[WildByDesign]

I am using _GUICtrlMenu_IsMenu to determine whether or not specific handles are a handle to a menu. It is working very well which is nice. But the problem is that it also brings in context menu handles as well.

If _GUICtrlMenu_IsMenu determines that a handle is a menu, is there anything that I can do to further determine if that menu handle is part of the top-level menubar or a context menu?

Thank you.

[argumentum]

1 hour ago, WildByDesign said:

But the problem is that it also brings in context menu handles as well.

 bad idea.  

Edited 11 hours ago by argumentum

[QueefWellington]

9 hours ago, WildByDesign said:

If _GUICtrlMenu_IsMenu determines that a handle is a menu, is there anything that I can do to further determine if that menu handle is part of the top-level menubar or a context menu?

Try using _WinAPI_GetClassName() on the menu handle and see if there's a difference.

[WildByDesign]

6 minutes ago, QueefWellington said:

Try using _WinAPI_GetClassName() on the menu handle and see if there's a difference.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately _WinAPI_GetClassName() returns blank for all menus.

[QueefWellington]

Does checking the style work?

_WinAPI_GetClassLongEx($h_Menu, $GCL_STYLE)

[WildByDesign]

I just tried _WinAPI_GetClassLongEx right now and unfortunately it returned 0 for all top level menus and the context menus as well. I was hoping it would have been slightly different to differentiate between them, but no luck.

In this case, they all have the same parent window as well so I can't determine by parent either.

[pixelsearch]

The example from the help file, topic _GUICtrlMenu_CreatePopup, displays a popup menu using  _GUICtrlMenu_TrackPopupMenu . This menu got its own handle.

While the popup menu is displayed, it is possible, using a Timer, to retrieve the top-level window associated to this menu. For example, I got this result returned in an Array :

0x002E07B4   #32768  <== this is the popup window class name & handle (different from the menu handle)
0x002906F2   SysShadow
0x00070650   AutoIt v3 GUI

So in your case, facing a menu handle, you could do same and if you don't retrieve any top-level window having a class name #32768 associated to your thread, then it could mean that you're facing a non-popup menu handle.

For what it's worth...

[WildByDesign]

12 minutes ago, pixelsearch said:

So in your case, facing a menu handle, you could do same and if you don't retrieve any top-level window having a class name #32768 associated to your thread, then it could mean that you're facing a non-popup menu handle.

Thanks for your suggestion. In this particular case, it wont likely be possible because I can't rely on someone clicking on any of the menus. I have to detect them all before the GUI is shown.

I do think that I have an idea that should work. I am getting the menu text with _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemText() and I realized that the context menus always return blank for that. I am not as familiar with popup menus, so I will have to check and confirm with those.

So far I am pretty sure that I can assume that if _GUICtrlMenu_GetItemText() returns a text string, that should be a top-level menubar item. If it returns blank, then it cannot be a top-level menubar item. But before I go all in on implementing it, I will have to test any other menus like popup menus to see if they return text.