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Re: Finding location of current menu

Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2020-02-14 06:48 -0800
References <30e2ae3a58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> <mpro.q4ztv001i3wxf02ho.news@stevefryatt.org.uk> <250f013c58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject Re: Finding location of current menu
From svrsig <chris@svrsig.org>

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On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 1:19:46 PM UTC, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> In message <mpro.q4ztv001i3wxf02ho.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>
>  on 31 Jan 2020 Steve Fryatt  wrote:
> 

> > My guess is that Wimp_GetMenuState is primarily aimed at handling
> > Message_HelpRequest, where you get provided with a window and icon handle,
> > and the problem is working out how they relate to your application.
> 
> That's a very good point. I had not thought of that. I don't think I've ever
> provided interactive help over menus, but I can see it would be necessary to
> do this lookup.
>  
Shame on you. It only came in with RISC OS 3 but that was some time ago. I added it to my apps when I updated the Wimp_Initialise call to say it was RISC OS 3.10 compatible and that was more recently than I would like to admit!

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Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-30 23:43 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 08:10 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu news@sprow.co.uk - 2020-01-31 00:55 -0800
    Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-02 13:19 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-02 20:12 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 22:45 +0000
    Re: Finding location of current menu Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-02-01 20:38 +0100
    Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-02 13:17 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu Terry Kelly <tk@cestriant.plus.com> - 2020-02-02 16:45 +0000
        Re: Finding location of current menu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-02-02 19:44 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2020-02-14 06:48 -0800
        Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-14 22:03 +0000
          Re: Finding location of current menu svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2020-02-19 10:45 -0800

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