Shortcut Menu 'Closed' Event

[LeeH]

Hello All,

I'm attempting to create a right-click shortcut menu for a 3D picture control within an x-control that's showing data in a loop. As part of plotting the data, I have included an option to 'smooth' the input data so the picture control doesn't jump around and, ideally I'd like this to be toggled via a right-click menu at run-time.

The problem is that when you activate a right-click menu on a picture control that's constantly being updated it flickers alot and looks rubbish, therefore I want to suspend the drawing of the 3D picture when the menu is activated. However to do this I need to know when the right-click menu is de-activated so I can re-enable the drawing.

All's fine if the user actually selects something from the menu as the 'selection' event can be handled, but if the user just clicks off the menu to get rid of it there doesn't seem to be any event in labview that will detect this, so the drawing will remain suspended.

Is there any way to detect the 'close menu' event in labview (this is easily achievable in vb etc.) and/or is there a way to get access to the plethora of windows events that labview doesn't handle as the subset is extremely limiting!!!

Any advice would be much appreciated

thanks