Could anyone please tell me what the name of the system context menu is?

[luckiejacky]

Cannot find it in MSDN...
I want to get the right-click context menu where you click on the desktop

winClass.lpszMenuName  = LoadMenu(...);

[VictorN]

Cannot find it in MSDN...
I want to get the right-click context menu where you click on the desktop

Why do you think it exists?
This whole context menu may also be created on the fly in response to the WM_CONTEXTMENU message...

winClass.lpszMenuName  = LoadMenu(...);

What is this winClass? Is it a WNDCLASS instance?

PS: did you try to use Spy++ to see how WM_CONTEXTMENU message in case of the desktop is sent?

[Igor Vartanov]

Cannot find it in MSDN...

Who told you you could find it there? MSDN is about Windows architecture, principles and various APIs. The menu is a part of Windows Explorer that is a standalone application, closed source and has nothing to do with public APIs. Funny thing, I'm sure I already told you that thing about Windows Explorer some tima ago, a year maybe or something...

[luckiejacky]

Hello,
Ok, Works pretty good now.
I've got a texture in the back, I've got the context menu, I've got the sidebar and rocketdock.
But only missing is the icons of the desktop

case WM_PAINT:
case WM_ERASEBKGND:
	// Draw on top 
	if (g_pd3dDevice)
		render();

	// Draw icon on top
			 
	break;

This is just the message loop of the listview of the shell.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jack

[2kaud]

Desktop items for the usual desktop are stored in two places.

For Windows 7
/users/<username>/Desktop
/users/Public/Desktop

As these locations have changed between OS versions, SHGetKnownFolderPath(KNOWN) can be used to get these values where KNOWN is

FOLDERID_Desktop for <username> which gives the path to the desktop folder for the user.
FOLDERID_PublicDesktop which gives the path to the desktop folder for public.

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx

[VictorN]

Hello,
Ok, Works pretty good now.
I've got a texture in the back, I've got the context menu, I've got the sidebar and rocketdock.
But only missing is the icons of the desktop
...

Did you try using IShellFolder::EnumObjects method to enumerate all the icons?
See also https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx

[luckiejacky]

Hello,
Another Shell Programming Question,

As things get unresponsive,

If I set up the window procedure for the shell window (listview of the shell) using SetWindowLongPtr, the window procedure never gets a single message from the message loop, why was that?

SetWindowLongPtr(g_hShellWindow, GWLP_WNDPROC, (LONG)WindowProc);

[luckiejacky]

Sorry, I worked out the last one.
But if I paint the icons after the wallpaper,
the window procedure will paint the wallpaper and icons alternately back and forth,
so they constantly overwriting each other on the screen.

Should I create a surface, using SetRect? to paint on the canvas, and blit it out at one go?

[luckiejacky]

I sort of work out the solution, here I need to create a desktop icon window above the "my" wallpaper and dreamscene and below explorer's, rocketdocks, rainmeter and everything else

                                                                      V
Back <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Front
     root        ori icons       my wallpaper             desktop icons             Explorer
		   ori wp	      my dreamscene		                        Sidebar
								                                RocketDock
							                                        Rainmeter

How can I make a transparent window above the listview of the shell I just previously hooked into?