Display F1 Help of a popup menu item

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Hello,

I´m trying to display the F1 help of a popup menu item but I can´t.
This Menu Item X is accesible from two places:

From Main Menu -> The F1 help is well displayed because windows send the correct ID of the Menu Item X.

From a Popup Menu (right click on a Dialog, a Popup Menu that contains the same Item X) -> When I try to display the F1 Help of this Menu Item X I can´t. The displayed help is the one of the Dialog. Windows send the ID of the dialog and not the ID of the menu item.

Is there a way to get the ID of the menu item (when the menu is displayed in a contextual popup) and not the ID of the dialog?

Thanks for your help,

Rafa

Posted 16-May-13 22:03pm

Rafa Alcaide

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P Uday kishore 17-May-13 6:13am

to get it from the pop up menu you should override a method like
oncommand.
for eg:
ON_COMMAND(ID of the item, &xxxx::xxxxx)

[no name] 20-May-13 6:25am

dear friend at first you shuold add OnKeyDown() event to get the F1 button and after that you have to create a menu and call it by popupmenu.
to load menu use this code:
<pre>
CMenu m;
m.LoadMenu(IDR_MENU1);
SetMenu(&m);
</pre>
hope to help you

P Uday kishore 22-May-13 5:27am

IS IT WORKING NOW?

Rafa Alcaide 22-May-13 10:57am

Thanks,

by the moment, I´ve not work anymore on that. I will try and I will tell you in the next days.

Rafa Alcaide 23-May-13 4:05am

Hello,

I don´t arrive to find a solution.

The menus and submenus are already developped. I don´t access to any item to see the help, I only press F1 when I´m on the Menu Item. Like that, the method HtmlHelp is always invoked.

When is invoked from a menu, the id of the item is well sent but when is invoked from a popupmenu th id of the item is not sent, is sent the id of the dialog.

P Uday kishore 24-May-13 2:14am

In resource view did u get the menu items under MENU folder????
if came just check its properties once.

Rafa Alcaide 24-May-13 3:53am

Hello,

yes, in resource view I get the menu items and I can see the ID of the menu and menu items.
I don´t know if I´ve well explained the problem:

I have a menu item accessible from two menus, one is a general menu, the another one is a popup menu.
And then I have the following function:

void CMainFr::HtmlHelp(DWORD dwData, UINT nCmd)
{
DWORD dwResId = dwData & 0x0000FFFF;
.....

}

If I press F1 when I´m on the item of the menu -> dwResId = Id of the Item.

If I press F1 when I´m on the item of the popupmenu (contextual menu of a dialog) -> dwResId = Id of the dialog.

My goal is to get on bith cases the same ID -> Id of the Item.

HtmlHelp function is directly called form the MFC framework.

Have you any idea?

Thanks,

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