Fixing Popupmenu 'bug' from system tray

    If you have ever sent your app to the system tray and created a click event to popup a menu using Popupmenu (menuname) you will be aware of the small 'bug'.

    By default, your application WILL NOT be set as the active app so when you call the popupmenu function, it will create the menu out of focus. This means it cannot recieve the 'lost focus' message and will not close when you click somewhere else. This is a very simple thing to fix but nobody seems to use it. All you have to do is set the Form owner of the menu to Focus :)

eg: (from standard sys tray form_mousemove event)

'(place in module)

Public Declare Function SetForegroundWindow
Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd
As Long) As Long

'(place in form_mousemove event)

Private Sub Form_MouseMove(Button As
Integer, Shift As Integer, X
As Single, Y As
Single)

        If Me.WindowState
= vbMinimized then

           
' window is minimized must be in system tray or MouseMove event would not
execute

            Dim
lngMsg As Long

            Dim result
As Long

               
' get the WM Message passed via X

               
' since X is by default mes. in Twips, 

               
' devide it by the number of twips / pixel

               
' so we recieve the proper value

            lngMsg = X / Screen.TwipsPerPixelX

            

            Select Case lngMsg

                
case WM_RBUTTONUP ' right button 

                           
SetForegroundWindow Me.hwnd

                           
Popupmenu Me.mnuFile

            end select

        end if

end sub

and it's that simple. Can't remember who told me this but thanks if it were ye. :)