Adding Items To A Menu

[softweng]

I want to add an item to an IE menu. I have figured out how to add items to the toolbar,
the Tools menu, and the default right click menu. But I need to add one to the menu that
comes up when you highlight text on the web page and right click. When you do this it comes up
with Copy, Cut, Paste etc. I know it can be done because I have a program installed that has done
this (Copernic) Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks for any help!!!!!!!!

Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ

[Iouri]

Try this

Dim gLastElement As Integer

Private Sub Form_Load()
'---------------------------
gLastElement = 0
mnuDel.Enabled = False
End Sub

Private Sub mnuAdd_Click()
'---------------------------
mnuItems(0).Visible = True
If gLastElement = 15 Then
Exit Sub
End If
gLastElement = gLastElement + 1
Load mnuItems(gLastElement)
mnuItems(gLastElement).Caption = "Troop" + Str(gLastElement)
mnuDel.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub mnuDel_Click()
'---------------------------
mnuAdd.Enabled = True
Unload mnuItems(gLastElement)
gLastElement = gLastElement - 1
If gLastElement = 0 Then mnuDel.Enabled = False: mnuItems(0).Visible = False
End Sub

Private Sub mnuGrow_Click()
'---------------------------
If gLastElement = 15 Then mnuAdd.Enabled = False
End Sub



Iouri Boutchkine
[email protected]

[softweng]

Thanks for the help! But I need to add an item to the menu that comes up when you higlight text
in Internet Explorer.
I think I am not going to do it this way now. I have registered a hotkey for my app which works
very well. I do need to figure out something else. My app runs if IE is open and the F2 key
is pressed. What I need to do is copy the text that is higlighted on the web page into a textbox
on my form. Any idea on how to do that?

Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ

[Iouri]

Can you copy the highlighted text to the clipboard and then paste from clipboard to the text box

Iouri Boutchkine
[email protected]

[softweng]

That is exactly what I am trying to do. I have tried using "^C" with the SendKeys function
but that doesn't work. I think I need to use the SendMessage API but I haven't figured out how.
I know the hWnd of the IE Window and it is the active foreground window at the time.

Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ

[Iouri]

You have to find the handle of the text box and sendmessage to set focus on this text box. After that you can copy the content of the text box to the clipboard


Here is an example which might help you to figure out how to deal with SendMessage API


When you associate your application with data files, often you don't need to open a new a instance of
application when a file is doubleclicked. Instead, you just want to send a command string (file name) to the
previous instance. This application demonstrates a technique that allows you to do this without subclassing,
using an invisible command button. The same technique can be useful for sending messages between two
applications.

Place invisible button on form. When you need send some message to this app, just find hwnd of this
button by its caption, change caption through API and call its click event through SendMessage. Then
in Click event read caption, store this string or make some staff and change caption back to 'searchable'
caption.

To see this work, run the included.exe file multiple times, with a command string passed to it.




Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, ByVal hWnd2 As Long, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long
Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function IsIconic Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long

Const SW_RESTORE = 9
Const WM_SETTEXT = &HC
Const BM_CLICK = &HF5 ' Top MS secret? Not included into API32.txt

'Code

Private Sub ProcessCommandLine(sCommand As String)
'Your code here
' MsgBox "Excuted with command: " & sCommand
If Text1.Text <> "" Then Text1.Text = Text1.Text & vbCrLf
Text1 = Text1 & "Excuted with command: " & sCommand
End Sub

Private Sub cmdDummy_Click()
ProcessCommandLine cmdDummy.Caption
cmdDummy.Caption = "Ready for command"
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim h As Long, hButton As Long
Dim sCaption As String, sCommand As String
cmdDummy.Visible = False
sCaption = "Your Caption"
Text1 = ""
sCommand = "iouri" 'Command
If App.PrevInstance Then
h = FindWindow(vbNullString, ByVal sCaption)
ActivateWindow h
hButton = FindWindowEx(h, 0, vbNullString, ByVal "Ready for command")
SendMessage hButton, WM_SETTEXT, 0, ByVal sCommand
SendMessage hButton, BM_CLICK, 0, ByVal 0&
Unload Me
Exit Sub
Else
Caption = sCaption
cmdDummy.Caption = sCommand
cmdDummy_Click
End If
End Sub

Private Sub ActivateWindow(h As Long)
If h Then
If IsIconic(h) Then
Call ShowWindow(h, SW_RESTORE)
End If
Call SetForegroundWindow(h)
Else
Exit Sub 'no need to continue.
End If
End Sub



Iouri Boutchkine
[email protected]

[softweng]

Unfortunately this is just text on a web page that I am trying to copy. I have figured out
another way to accomplish this. In Internet Explorer you can add menu items to the default
Right Click menu and have IE execute a web page containing JavaScript. I have figured out how
to get the higlighted text on the parent page using JavaScript and then open my app using
Windows Scripting Host. I pass the highlighted text as a command line parameter. Now I only
have one problem. When you highlight text on a web page and right click a different menu comes
up. It has selections like Cut, Copy, Paste etc. I need to add a selection to this menu.
I know it can be done because I use Copernic, which is a web search engine program, and when it
was installed it added a menu selection here too. Any ideas on how to add a selection to this
menu? That is all I need to do to get this to work. Thanks for any help you can provide!!!!!!


Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ

[softweng]

Hey I figured out to add the menu item I was talking about in my previous post.
Here is the registry hack to do it. The key name is what shows up in the menu. In this case it is
IE Network Utility's. Just change the name of the key to whatever you want. And then change the path to point to a web page that runs some
kind of script.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\IE Network Utility's]
@="C:\\winnt\\web\\RunIENetUtil.htm"
"Flags"=hex:00,00,00,00

Here is the JavaScript I use:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var parentWin = external.menuArguments;
if (parentWin)
{
var el = parentWin.event.srcElement;
var tag = el.tagName;
var doctxt = parentWin.document.body.createTextRange();
var searchtext = "";

switch (tag) {
case "A":
searchtext = el.innerText;
break;

case "IMG":
searchtext = el.alt;
break;

case "INPUT":
case "TEXTAREA":
if (el.type == "image")
searchtext = el.alt
else if (el.type != "radio") {
searchtext = parentWin.document.selection.createRange().text;
if (searchtext == "")
searchtext = el.createTextRange().text;
}
break;
}

if (searchtext == "") {
searchtext = parentWin.document.selection.createRange().text;
if (searchtext == "") {
doctxt.moveToPoint(parentWin.event.clientX, parentWin.event.clientY);
doctxt.moveStart("word", 1);
doctxt.moveStart("word", -1);
doctxt.moveEnd("word", -1);
doctxt.moveEnd("word", 1);
searchtext = doctxt.text;
}
}

}
var objWshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
objWshShell.Run ("C:\IENetUtil.exe searchtext");
{
}
</SCRIPT>

Kris
Software Engineer
Phoenix,AZ