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"Keith" wrote:

>Has anyone any idea how I can find the size of the rectangle created during
>a pull down menu. If I have a title bar with a menu item defided as
>IDM_FILE and use
>
>WinSendMsg(hwndMenu, MM_QUERYITEM, MPFROM2SHORT(IDM_FILE, TRUE), /*
>Submenu identifier */
> (MPARAM) &mi);
>/* Pointer to MENUITEM */
>WinQueryWindowRect (mi.hwndSubMenu, &rcl)
>
>Then all I get is the size of the rectangle of IDM_FILE on the title bar.
>What I need is the size of the drop down menu which contains the submenu
>items.

Hi Keith the MENUITEM structure of the item owning the drop down
should contain the handle of the drop down itself (which is a separate
window) once you have got the handle you can use WinQueryWindowRect()
to get the drop down size or WinQueryWindowPos() if you need more details

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Alessandro