AdMenu.exe Adds Items to Sys Menus of All Applications

ID: Q74695

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) versions 3.0, 3.1

SUMMARY

AdMenu.exe is a sample file that demonstrates how to add new menu items to the system menus of all applications running under Windows at a given time.

MORE INFORMATION

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file names below to download the files:

AdMenu.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center. ADMENUAPP adds two menu items to the system menu of each application running under Windows. To do this, it uses two system-wide hooks: a WH_GETMESSAGE hook and a WH_CALLWNDPROC hook. Both of these hooks are implemented in ADMENULIB, a fixed-code DLL.

Whenever the WH_CALLWNDPROC hook function sees a WM_INITMENU message being sent to a top-level window, it appends the two new menu items to that window's system menu. The items are removed when the menu is closed.

The two menu items that are added appear as "New Menu Item 1" and "New Menu Item 2." If the user selects one of these items, the WH_GETMESSAGE hook procedure sees the resulting WM_COMMAND message and responds by posting a private message to ADMENUAPP. ADMENUAPP handles the private message by displaying a dialog box stating that one of the two added items was selected.

For more information on adding menu items to another application's system menu, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q72222 Appending Menu Items to Other Applications

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbfile kbsample kb16bitonly kbHook kbMenu kbGrpUser kbWinOS310 kbWinOS300
Version : WINDOWS:3.0,3.1
Platform : WINDOWS
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