Ahh, testing again in VB6. Learning all about the black art of WinAPI programming and control of mouse events.
Here’s what I’ve learned that can be passed on to you, Grasshopper.
- Test a Pop-Up menu… seek your history, Grasshopper, and learn that PopupMenu is a BLOCKING function. Therefore, a out-of-thread timer is required to handle the call. Oh, and when you get ready to SendKeys to the menu… Make NO OTHER CALLS before sending the keys, and send them all at once. The container form of the popup menu will readily take back keyboard focus and you’ll lose your menu control otherwise.
- Testing a TreeView with Mouse Events. Getting the windows handle of the selected TreeView node requires you to go down the rabbit hole of WinAPI. SendMessage with TVM_GETNEXTITEM, TVGN_CARET and TVM_GETNEXTITEM, TVGN_ROOT will be very beneficial.
- A nice dll out-of-thread timer can be found at http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/HiResTimer/article.asp
Oh, how this is fun!
Why no code? Because as a student of the black art the education is in your research, and the joy is in watching your code do what you wanted after long long efforts.