MM_QUERYITEMTEXTLENGTH

This message returns the text length of the specified menu item.

Syntax

param1
USHORT usitem;      /* Item identifier. */

param2
ULONG ulReserved; /* Reserved value, should be 0. */

Parameters

usitem (USHORT) - input

Item identifier.

ulReserved (ULONG) - input

Reserved value, should be 0.

Returns

sLength (SHORT) - return

Length of item text.

The length of the text string, excluding the null termination character.

0: Error occurred. For example, no item of the specified identity exists

or the item has no text. No text is copied.

Other: Length of item text.

Remarks

The menu control window procedure responds to this message by returning the length in characters of the text of the identified item, if it has a style of MIS_TEXT.

Default Processing

The default window procedure does not expect to receive this message and therefore takes no action on it, other than to set sLength to the default value of 0.