SAMPLE: AdMenu.exe Adds Items to Sys Menus of All Applications

ID: Q74695

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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 file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library: 

 ~ AdMenu.exe (size: 19281 bytes)
For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
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: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q72222
   TITLE     : Appending Menu Items to Other Applications
Additional query words: Keywords : kbfile kbsample kb16bitonly kbHook kbMenu kbGrpUser kbWinOS310 kbWinOS300

Last Reviewed: December 24, 1998