CreatePopupMenu Function

The CreatePopupMenu function creates a drop-down menu, submenu, or shortcut menu. The menu is initially empty. You can insert or append menu items by using the InsertMenuItem function. You can also use the InsertMenu function to insert menu items and the AppendMenu function to append menu items.

Syntax

    HMENU CreatePopupMenu(VOID);

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CreatePopupMenu Function Description 

CreatePopupMenu is a powerful function for custom items appending to Windows Explorer Shell context menu. CreatePopupMenu function works without issues only for Windows 95 / Windows 98 (not on XP, Vista, x64 - 64-bit Windows), to add items to Windows Explorer Shell context menu you should use, according to Microsoft guidelines, appropriate .Net component - Windows Explorer Shell Context Menu. This component for .Net Framework may be used in projects on any CLR language - C#, VB.Net, Java to add items to Explorer context menu.

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

    The application can add the new menu to an existing menu, or it can display a shortcut menu by calling the TrackPopupMenuEx or TrackPopupMenu functions.

    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.

Windows 98 Example

    For an example, see Adding Lines and Graphs to a Menu.

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.