I know that these menus are accessible to AHK, as you can do the following do activate 'File-Save' from the notepad menu: Will return 'cancel' if the cancel button was pressed in the 'file-save as' dialogue of notepad, but returns nothing if I activate it while selecting anything from the application menus (file, edit, format, etc.) (Note that I used windows-z so as to not return a MsgBox after every left-click.) I have implemented a few techniques that enabled me to pull variables out of most control objects following a left click (buttons, drop-down menus, etc), but when I use the application menu (for example, in notepad: file-save or file-open) It returns a blank string. Cursor position, however, is probably not viable for my needs.Ī simple example of this would be to open a MsgBox when File-Open is selected with the mouse in notepad. It does not matter whether that is determined by menu position, label or otherwise. I would like to have a script that performs an action if a certain menu item is clicked. I want to do something almost exactly like this, but using the application menus as described below instead of a button. I am using notepad in my examples, but I'm writing this script for a complicated Point Of Sale program.

I looked around the AHK forums, google, and here on stack overflow and could not find any method for pulling this off, so thanks BIG TIME in advance if you can figure this one out.

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