System Menu Classes

These two classes provide system menu functionality similar to the regular Menu and MenuItem classes so that you can use regular Click events instead of overriding WndProc when trying to modify a windows System menu. You should be able to figure out how to use SystemMenu and SystemMenuItem by looking at the constructors.

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows;
using System.Collections;

public class SystemMenu : ArrayList {
   
   public const int BYPOSITION = 0x400;
   public const int REMOVE     = 0x1000;
   public const int CHECKED    = 0x8;
   public const int APPEND     = 0x100;
   public const int SEPERATOR  = 0x800;
   public const int GRAYED     = 0x1;
   public const int DISABLED   = 0x2;
   public const int BITMAP     = 0x4;
   public const int RADIOCHECK = 0x200;
   public const int BREAK      = 0x40;
   public const int BARBREAK   = 0x20;

   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int GetSystemMenu(int HWND);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int AppendMenu(int MenuHandle, int Props, int FlagsW, string text);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int RemoveMenu(int MenuHandle, int pos, int Flags);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int GetMenuItemID(int Menuhandle, int pos);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int ModifyMenu(int MHandle, int pos,int flags,int newPos,string text);

   private Form form;
   private int SystemMenuHandle;
   
   public int Handle {
       get { return SystemMenuHandle; }
   }

   public SystemMenu(Form f) : base(0) {
       form = f;
       SystemMenuHandle = GetSystemMenu(form.Handle.ToInt32());
   }
   
   public void Add(SystemMenuItem MI) {
       base.Add(MI);
       if(MI.Text == "-") {
           AppendMenu(SystemMenuHandle,SystemMenu.SEPERATOR,MI.MenuID,null);
       } else {
           AppendMenu(SystemMenuHandle,MI.Flags,MI.MenuID,MI.Text);
       }
   }

   public void Remove(SystemMenuItem MI) {
       base.Remove(MI);
       RemoveMenu(SystemMenuHandle, MI.MenuID, 0);
   }

   public void ModifyMenuPosition(int pos, int flags, string text) {
       ModifyMenu(this.Handle, pos, flags|SystemMenu.BYPOSITION, pos, text);
   }

   public new SystemMenuItem this[int index] {
       get { return (SystemMenuItem)base[index]; }
       set {
           if(value!=null) {
           SystemMenuItem MI = (SystemMenuItem)value;
           ModifyMenu(this.Handle, this[index].MenuID, MI.Flags, MI.MenuID, MI.Text); }
           base[index] = (object)value;
       }
   }

}// end of class SystemMenu

public class SystemMenuItem : MenuItem {
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int GetSystemMenu(int HWND);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int AppendMenu(int MenuHandle, int Props, int FlagsW, string text);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int RemoveMenu(int MenuHandle, int pos, int Flags);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int GetMenuItemID(int Menuhandle, int pos);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int ModifyMenu(int MHandle, int pos,int flags,int newPos,string text);
   [DllImport("user32.dll")]
   private static extern int CheckMenuItem(int HMenu, int pos, int flags);

   private int flags = 0;
   public int Flags {
       get { return flags; }
   }

   private SystemMenu menu;    
   public SystemMenuItem(string text, SystemMenu SM) {
       base.Text = text;
       menu = SM;
       if(text == "-")
           this.flags = SystemMenu.SEPERATOR;
   }

   public new int MenuID {
       get { return base.MenuID; }
   }

   public SystemMenuItem CloneMenu(int should_be_null) {
       should_be_null = 0;
       return new SystemMenuItem(this.Text, menu);
   }

   public new bool Checked {
       get { return base.Checked; }
       set {
           base.Checked = value;
           if(base.Checked) {
               flags = (flags|SystemMenu.CHECKED);
               CheckMenuItem(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, flags);
           } else {
               flags = (flags&(~SystemMenu.CHECKED));
               CheckMenuItem(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, flags);
           }    
       }
   }

   public new string Text {
       get { return base.Text; }
       set {
           base.Text = value;
           ModifyMenu(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, this.flags, this.MenuID, base.Text);
       }
   }
   
   public new bool Break {
       get { return base.Break; }
       set {
           base.Break = value;
           if(base.Break) {
               flags = flags|SystemMenu.BREAK;
               ModifyMenu(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, this.flags, this.MenuID, base.Text);
           } else {
               flags = flags&(~SystemMenu.BREAK);
               ModifyMenu(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, this.flags, this.MenuID, base.Text);
           }
       }
   }

   public new bool BarBreak {
       get { return base.BarBreak; }
       set {
           base.BarBreak = value;
           if(base.BarBreak) {
               flags = flags|SystemMenu.BARBREAK;
               ModifyMenu(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, this.flags, this.MenuID, base.Text);
           } else {
               flags = flags&(~SystemMenu.BARBREAK);
               ModifyMenu(menu.Handle, this.MenuID, this.flags, this.MenuID, base.Text);
           }
       }
   }

   
}//end of class SystemMenuItem

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