This might work. Add the pbm_menuselect event to the window.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646352(v=vs.85).aspx

​Whether you'll be able to determine the menuitem I'm not sure.

If Roland's answer works, please let us know!

I did something similar a while back. I created a function on the base menu object that LOGs the name of the menu and the menu item selected.

In every descendent menu item that you might want to log, you call this function and pass it the info you want logged. Simple.

You can log the data to a database, which is the preferred method; or you can log to a text file.

Good Luck,

Olan

Here is another link to someone who got pbm_menuselect to work for them.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/powersoft.public.powerbuilder.powerscript/vKkam2e0dYo/T06O38J4HTQJ

​You can use the GetMenuString API function to get the menu name from the arguments pass to pbm_menuselect.

Hi, and thanks for the great feedback.

I got this working now.

I declared a local external function like this:

FUNCTION ulong GetMenuString(ulong hMenu,uint uItem,REF String lpString,uint nMaxCount,uint uFlags) LIBRARY "user32.dll" ALIAS FOR "GetMenuStringA;Ansi"

(I guess you can alias "GetMenuStringW" as well, but I haven't tested this yet).

Then I added an event for my MDI-window, referring to the pbm_menuselect event ID.

And called the local external function like this:

ls_menuname = space(128)
i = 128

ll_ret = GetMenuString(hmenu,itemid,ls_menuname,i,flags)

ll_ret returns the number of characters in the menuitem, and ls_menuname contains the name itself.

I will look into the different flags and other values to try to filter out when you just hover over a menu without clicking it.

Thanks a lot!

Hi again.

I kinda looks like the pbm_menuselect event is not suited for my need.

Being that it fires every time I hover over a menu, even without selecting/clicking it. I just want to record each time a menu is clicked.

Do you have similar problems and perhaps a solution?

It doesn't look like "flags" can help me. And "hmenu" have different values each time my application runs.

So there really isn't much to filter the results from.

Regards,

Bjarne

Hi again.

I'm circling back to this issue, since I really want to make this work.
As previously mentioned, the pbm_menuselect event fires every time the user moves the pointer over an menuitem.
And that doesn't make any sense in my case. There is also no way to filter out if the user moves over og clicks a menuitem.

Is there any other event that I can implement to register only the click on a specific menuitem?
Or is the solution as cumbersome as to make a function on the main menu which records the clicks and call it on each menuitem's clicked() event?

Perhaps some of the Appeon engineers or SAP MVP's have another take on this issue?

Hopefully awaiting answers.

Bjarne Anker