HOWTO: Cancel an Active Menu

• Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK), on platform(s):
  • Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows 95

SUMMARY

To cancel an active menu send a WM_CANCELMODE message to the window that owns it.

MORE INFORMATION

When you send the WM_CANCELMODE message to the owner window of an active menu, the window exits the menu mode. You can use this technique to force the abandonment of active TrackPopupMenu or TrackPopupMenuEx.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbMenu kbNTOS kbSDKPlatform kbGrpUser kbWinOS 
Version           : WINDOWS:95
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: February 4, 1999