INF: Menu Operations When MDI Child Maximized

ID Number: Q71836

3.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

Pop-up menus added to an MDI application's menu using InsertMenu()

with MF_BYPOSITION will be inserted one position further left than

expected if the active MDI child window is maximized. This behavior

occurs because the system menu of the active MDI child is inserted

into the first position of the MDI frame window's menu bar.

To avoid this problem, if the active child is maximized when a new

pop-up is inserted by position, add 1 (one) to the position value that

would otherwise have been used. To determine that the currently active

child window is maximized, send a WM_MDIGETACTIVE message to the MDI

client window. If the high word of the return value from this message

contains 1, the active child window is maximized.