> "Lorne Anderson" <✉hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
>> The owner draw code is not processed if I launch the popup with 
>> TrackPopupMenuEx - even with a simple test procedure like this:
>
> That is because you are passing the wrong HWND to TrackPopupMenuEx(), so 
> all of the menu-related window messages get sent to the wrong window and 
> are not dispatched to the TMenuItem objects correctly.  VCL menus that are 
> based on TMenu and TMenuItem use a dedicated window that is provided by 
> the TPopupList class in the Menus unit.  You need to pass that window to 
> TrackPopupMenu/Ex(), ie:
>
> {code:delphi}
> uses
>  Menus;
> ...
> Selected := Ord(TrackPopupMenuEx(test.Handle, TPM_LEFTALIGN or 
> TPM_BOTTOMALIGN or TPM_RETURNCMD, pt.X, pt.Y, PopupList.Window, nil));
> ...
> {code}
>
> BTW, when you use the TPM_RETURNCMD flag, TrackPopupMenuEx() returns a 
> menu ID, not an index.  To translate that ID into a TMenuItem correctly, 
> you have to loop through the items of your menu one at a time until you 
> find the one whose ID property matches the value that TrackPopupMenuEx() 
> returned.  But since all you are doing is triggering the menu item's 
> OnClick event, you should just remove the TPM_RETURNCMD flag altogether 
> and let the TMenuItem handle that natively (which it will be able to 
> correctly once you start passing the TPopupList window to 
> TrackPopupMenuEx()).
>
> -- 
> Remy Lebeau (TeamB)