System Menus

How to retrieve system menu items without crashing Windows. Windows 98 introduced bitmaps in its system menus, requiring a slightly different approach to menu data retrieval from code. 

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Posted: 2017-08-08
By: BlackBeltVB
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Visual Basic 6

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MENUSELS.ZIP
Posted: 8/8/2017 6:33:02 AM
Size: 2,137 bytes

Requirements

This code originally appeared on BlackBeltVB.com, and has been republished here with the permission of Matt Hart.

Special Instructions

Uses the following API functions:

• CopyMemory (RtlMoveMemory)
• FindWindow
• GetMenuItemCount
• GetMenuItemInfo
• GetSystemMenu
• GlobalAlloc
• GlobalFree

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