Popup menu on mousemove event

[Emster]

Hi,

I am trying to implement a popup menu that opens on a mousemove message rather than a right mouse click. When the cursor is in a particular region of the client window, the popup menu should be displayed. If the mouse moves to a different region, the original popup menu should 'disappear' and a modified menu should appear that is specific to that region.

I am finding this quite difficult to get working - does anyone have any ideas for me? This has been my approach so far:

In the OnMouseMove handler - I check the cursor coordinates and create/load the popup menu specific to the region. Because I am using TrackPopupMenu to display the popup menu, no other mouse move messages were getting through until I closed that menu or select an item from it.

My attempt at a solution (after searching on CodeGuru) was to use a thread specific hook to catch the mousemove message - to do this I used:

SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE, MouseHook, NULL,GetCurrentThreadId());

The MouseHook function is declared as:

LRESULT CALLBACK MouseHook(int nCode, WPARAM wParam,  LPARAM lParam)

In this function I check if it is a mousemove message and then call the same code to check the region and create a new popup menu.

My problem is that the popup menu will display the first time and then will remain on the screen until I close it or select an item from it .... if I step into the code, the MouseHook function is being called and sometimes fires the code to create a new menu, but it doesn't seem to work. I am not sure if my problem lies in how I am implementing the creation of the menu or how I am trying to create and use the windows hook.

Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but can anyone shed some light on this problem? Or perhaps suggest a better way to achieve the same result??

thanks,
Em