Modifying the system menu

[Tim Golden]

raj.indian.08 at gmail.com wrote:
> For (2) I wrote the following code for basic testing:
>     hwnd = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow()
>     hw = win32gui.GetSystemMenu(hwnd, False)
>     if hw != None:
>         win32gui.AppendMenu(hw,win32con.MF_SEPARATOR,0,'-');
> 
> and it shows the following error: pywintypes.error: (1401,
> 'AppendMenu', 'Invalid menu handle.')


Works for me. The following adds a separator and the
string "Hello" to my (Console) window's system menu

<code>
import win32con
import win32gui

hwnd = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow ()
hmenu = win32gui.GetSystemMenu (hwnd, False)
win32gui.AppendMenu (hmenu, win32con.MF_SEPARATOR, 0, '')
win32gui.AppendMenu (hmenu, win32con.MF_STRING, 100, 'Hello')

</code>

TJG