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Hi,

I have a GUI with many buttons and all of them use a similar context menu.

Because AutoIt doesn't support cloning controls, we need to create each button it's own context menu.

I'm using OnEventmode for convenience. On clicking a menu item, a function is run.

The function has a reference to @GUI_CtrlHandle, which is the clicked menuitem.

But I need a reference to the button which was right clicked. How do I do that?

Is there someway like getparent or something?

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AutoIt doesn't support cloning controls, we need to create each button it's own context menu.

Look at GUICtrlSetOnEvent UDF in my sign, you can use it to make one menu for all other controls.

About your problem with getting the button id, try this:

#include <GuiConstants.au3>
#include <Misc.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
;

Global $hUser32_Dll = DllOpen("User32.dll")
Global $iLastButtonID = -1

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$GUI = GUICreate("Buttons Menu", 300, 200)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Main_Events")

$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 20, 40, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu1 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button1)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button2", 20, 70, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu2 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button2)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $GUI)

While 1
    Sleep(100)
    
    If _IsPressed(02, $hUser32_Dll) Then
        Local $tPoint = DllStructCreate("int X;int Y")
        
        DllStructSetData($tPoint, "X", MouseGetPos(0))
        DllStructSetData($tPoint, "Y", MouseGetPos(1))
        
        Local $hWnd = _WinAPI_WindowFromPoint($tPoint)
        If _WinAPI_GetClassName($hWnd) = "Button" Then $iLastButtonID = Number(_WinAPI_GetDlgCtrlID($hWnd))
    EndIf
WEnd

Func _Main_Events()
    Switch @GUI_CtrlId
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case Else
            MsgBox(64, 'Title', "Parent Button's CtrlID: " & $iLastButtonID)
    EndSwitch
EndFunc

 

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Or better, without using _IsPressed, we can just catch the menu opening event (using WM_ENTERMENULOOP message), and get the button ID:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
;

Global Const $WM_ENTERMENULOOP = 0x0211 

Global $iLastButtonID = -1

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$GUI = GUICreate("Buttons Menu", 300, 200)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Main_Events")

$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 20, 40, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu1 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button1)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button2", 20, 70, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu2 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button2)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $GUI)
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ENTERMENULOOP, "WM_ENTERMENULOOP")

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func WM_ENTERMENULOOP($hWndGUI, $MsgID, $WParam, $LParam)
    Local $tPoint = DllStructCreate("int X;int Y")
    
    DllStructSetData($tPoint, "X", MouseGetPos(0))
    DllStructSetData($tPoint, "Y", MouseGetPos(1))
    
    Local $hWnd = _WinAPI_WindowFromPoint($tPoint)
    If _WinAPI_GetClassName($hWnd) = "Button" Then $iLastButtonID = Number(_WinAPI_GetDlgCtrlID($hWnd))
EndFunc

Func _Main_Events()
    Switch @GUI_CtrlId
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case Else
            MsgBox(64, "Info", _
                StringFormat("Parent Button's CtrlID: %i\nParent Button's Data: %s", $iLastButtonID, GUICtrlRead($iLastButtonID)))
    EndSwitch
EndFunc

 

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A Hobbyist's approach...

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>

Global $iLastButtonID = -1

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$GUI = GUICreate("Buttons Menu", 300, 200)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Main_Events")

$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 20, 40, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu1 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button1)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button2", 20, 70, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu2 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button2)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUISetState()

While 1
    $info = GUIGetCursorInfo()
    If $info[4] And $info[3] Then $iLastButtonID = GUICtrlRead($info[4])
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

Func _Main_Events()
    Switch @GUI_CtrlId
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case Else
            MsgBox(64, "Contol #" & @GUI_CtrlId, $iLastButtonID)
    EndSwitch
EndFunc   ;==>_Main_Events

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A Hobbyist's approach...

Oh... i forgot about it. I don't know why, but i always looking for a hard way, and then i see (or it's shown to me, as in this case) the easiest :D .

But here we also can use WM_ENTERMENULOO message, to avoid the main loop usage:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

Global Const $WM_ENTERMENULOOP = 0x0211
Global $iLastButtonID = -1

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$GUI = GUICreate("Buttons Menu", 300, 200)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Main_Events")

$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 20, 40, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu1 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button1)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu1)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button2", 20, 70, 60, 20)

$ContextMenu2 = GUICtrlCreateContextMenu($Button2)
GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item1", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUICtrlCreateMenuItem("Item2", $ContextMenu2)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Main_Events")

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $GUI)
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ENTERMENULOOP, "WM_ENTERMENULOOP")

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func WM_ENTERMENULOOP($hWndGUI, $MsgID, $WParam, $LParam)
    Local $aCursorInfo = GUIGetCursorInfo($hWndGUI)
    If $aCursorInfo[4] <> 0 Then $iLastButtonID = $aCursorInfo[4]
EndFunc

Func _Main_Events()
    Switch @GUI_CtrlId
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case Else
            MsgBox(64, "Menu Item ControlID = " & @GUI_CtrlId, _
                StringFormat("Button's CtrlID: %i\nButton's Data: %s", $iLastButtonID, GUICtrlRead($iLastButtonID)))
    EndSwitch
EndFunc
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