CreateMenu Context Menu Function

The CreateMenu function creates a Windows Explorer Shell context menu. The menu is initially empty, but it can be filled with menu items by using the InsertMenuItem, AppendMenu, and InsertMenu functions.

Syntax

    HMENU CreateMenu(VOID);

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CreateMenu Function Description

CreateMenu is a special custom items to Explorer file menu appending finction used on old Windows editions. CreateMenu function works only for Windows 95 / Windows 98 (not on XP, Vista, x64 - 64-bit Windows), so if you want to add items to Explorer context menu you should use, according to Microsoft guidelines, appropriate .Net component - Explorer Context Menu. Want to add custom context menu items to Explorer right-click context menu? Then you need Windows Context Menu .Net component - it will add item of any type to Explorer Shell context menu exactly as you want.

Return Value

    If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the newly created menu.

    If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

    Resources associated with a menu that is assigned to a window are freed automatically. If the menu is not assigned to a window, an application must free system resources associated with the menu before closing. An application frees menu resources by calling the DestroyMenu function.

    Windows 95/98/Me: The system can support a maximum of 16,364 menu handles.

Function Information

    Minimum DLL Version    user32.dll
    Header    Declared in Winuser.h, include Windows.h
    Import library    User32.lib
    Minimum operating systems    Windows 95, Windows NT 3.1
    Unicode    Implemented as Unicode version.