I have an application that docks to the top of the screen. When I use a dxbarpopupmenu and try to pop up a menu at the mouse position on right-click, it gets the x coordinate, but the y coordinate comes up underneath my application. I realize this is because the 'work area' of the screen is the region underneath my application, so how do I get around this?
The pop-up position is incorrectly calculated for a toolbar popup menu
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created 12 years ago
(modified 12 years ago)
Hello Trevor,
Thank you for your clarification. You can create a TdxBarPopupMenuLink in the TdxBarManager.PopupMenuLinks property and set its Control property to your form and PopupProperty - to the necessary TdxBarPopupMenu.
I've modified your sample using this approach. I hope this will help you achieve the required functionality.
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TR
12 years ago
Thanks Mikhail. Unfortunately, the changes you made caused the bar to not reserve that space at the top of the screen anymore, so it just started at the top like a normal application. On line 1033 you put SHAppBarMessage(ABM_QUERYPOS, AppBarInfo); where I originally had SHAppBarMessage(ABM_SETPOS, AppBarInfo); Once I set that back it properly reserved and used that top area, but then your suggestion of the TdxBarPopupMenuLink did not work.
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Ok, I'll work on that. In the meantime, if it helps, I'm referring to the AppBar capability from windows api. Using that is how my app 'docks' to the top.
Ok, here is a test app, you should see how it reserves space at the top of the screen, uses that for the app and when you right-click on it, the menu pops up underneath the app instead of at the mouse position