Hi, there!
How to force main menu item to be active (get focus and pull down)
just when main form is created and shown on the screen?
Automatically by default, without human action (Alt+... or F10).
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Oleg V. Chistyakov
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You have to fake keyboard action:

 keybd_event( VK_F10, MapVirtualkey( VK_F10, 0 ), 0, 0);
 keybd_event( VK_F10, MapVirtualkey( VK_F10, 0 ), KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
 keybd_event( VK_DOWN, MapVirtualKey( VK_DOWN,0), 0, 0);
 keybd_event( VK_DOWN, MapVirtualKey( VK_DOWN,0), KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);

Use OnActivate or perhaps OnPaint (in the latter case the first
statement should be OnPaint := Nil to prevent the event from firing
more than once).

Peter Below (TeamB)  100113.1...@compuserve.com)
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Also TrackPopupMenu() function could be useful.

Sincerely, Andrew Cher,
AnimatedMenus.com, Inc.

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