customizing a system menu: the RemoveMenu API call is broken

[Bob]

Apparently customizing the system menu in a Form requires API calls... that's
fine, but RemoveMenu doesn't work. Will I have to pop up my own menu to get rid
of certain selections?

Bob

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Bob" <no*****@nospam.net> scripsit:

Apparently customizing the system menu in a Form requires API calls... that's
fine, but RemoveMenu doesn't work. Will I have to pop up my own menu to get rid
of certain selections?

Please show us some code...

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[Bob]

Not mine, but here is an example.

http://tinyurl.com/ovfc

Bob

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"Bob" <no*****@nospam.net> scripsit:

Apparently customizing the system menu in a Form requires API calls... that's fine, but RemoveMenu doesn't work. Will I have to pop up my own menu to get rid of certain selections?

Please show us some code...

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[Cor]

> Not mine, but here is an example.

http://tinyurl.com/ovfc

Bob

ROFL

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Cor" <no*@non.com> schrieb:

Not mine, but here is an example.

http://tinyurl.com/ovfc

Bob

ROFL

???

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[Cor]

Herfried,
I give you an answer tomorrow, it is saterday night, and I look at the
answers, but dont answer them, you are from my Country, you know why.
Cor

[Bob]

That solved it. Thanks :)

"Mick Doherty" <md*******@nospam.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Sorry, should have said Change MF_REMOVE for MF_BYPOSITION

[Mick Doherty]

And sometimes(rarely I'll admit) they are very good.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi*******@m.gmx.at> wrote in message
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"Mick Doherty" <md*******@nospam.ntlworld.com> scripsit:

The RemoveMenu declaration at that page is incorrect (not
surprisingly, since it's hosted at Planet Crap Code),
It's not the Planet thats crap, there is a lot of useful information buried in there. That example was just a poor translation of a VBClassic

example.
Samples on Planet Source Crap will give you a basic idea on how to solve the problem, but often they are really "buggy".

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Mick Doherty" <md*******@nospam.ntlworld.com> scripsit:

And sometimes(rarely I'll admit) they are very good.

Your own submissions...

;-)))

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[Mick Doherty]

....and some others.
There are also those that have bonus features such as free error messages
and unexpected program termination. I try not to submit those.

;-)

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"Mick Doherty" <md*******@nospam.ntlworld.com> scripsit:

And sometimes(rarely I'll admit) they are very good.

Your own submissions...

;-)))

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[Mattias Sjögren]

Bob,

Which API guide?
Why, *the* API Guide. :-)
http://www.mentalis.org/

Oh, that one. Personally, the only "API guide" I trust is the Platform
SDK docs and headers.

The code I posted works under Option Strict. It's always on in my IDE as
default.
Oops, right you are. I thought the fact that the MF_REMOVE const was a
Long would cause a narrowing conversion, and therefore fail under
strict semantics, but I guess the compiler is smarter than that and
realizes that the constant value can safely be truncated to 32 bits.

The following code still fails to remove any system menu items.

Mike nailed it, MF_REMOVE should be MF_BYPOSITION (or MF_BYCOMMAND
with SC_CLOSE).

Mattias

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