Another Quick One

Hi again.

I would like to know how to ungray menu items. I have looked through the threads on the boards on similar topics, and found a very popular method I'd like to use: EnableMenuItem. The problem is that I need to supply the menu handle, and um ... I don't exactly know what my menu handle is.

I know this is a really dumb question, but I'm completely lost without the name of the handle. The code I'm using is in this thread : Bitmaps .

Thanks, and sorry for my idioticness.

If your window has a menu, you can get the handle using the GetMenu function.

I tried that, but on this line :

EnableMenuItem( HMENU, ID_EXECUTE_DEFAULT, MF_GRAYED);

It says : Syntax error before ',' token.

It means the first one, after HMENU I think.
Any suggestions ?

Well, do you have something that is an HMENU? You just passed the HMENU modifier like a paramter.

not familiar win32 api ui

WM_INITMENU

Kuphryn

How do you mean ?

EDIT: Oh, I get you. Yes, I have a HMENU menu.

Would this not work for you?

Code:

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EnableMenuItem(GetMenu(hwnd), ID_EXECUTE_DEFAULT, MF_GRAYED);

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Where hwnd is your window's handle. (And don't declare something as HMENU HMENU;... that causes confusion. At the very least: HMENU hMenu;.)

Finally, that will gray (not ungray) the menuitem... to ungray you change MF_GRAYED to MF_ENABLED.

Cool, it's working now !

Thanks for all the replies people :D