menus

[reanimated]

hey,

i'm having trouble with window menus (i'm terrible at windows API. give me directX any day ).

what i want to do is add a menu to a window being vreated with this call:

//Create the debug output window.
	hOutputWnd = CreateWindowEx( WS_EX_APPWINDOW, TEXT("Ghoul Runner Demo"), TEXT("Ghoul Runner Debug Output"), 
										WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, 500,500,400,300,
										GetDesktopWindow(), (HMENU)MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_DEBUG_MENU), wc.hInstance, NULL );
	
	ShowWindow(hOutputWnd, SW_SHOW);

as it stands, that code does not produce a window. If i change the HMENU parameter to NULL, it produces one (without a menu).

i made the menu with a resource editor, and if i set it for the class menu it works fine. Am i incorrect in casting the integer resource to a HMENU?

[Ken Fitlike]

The menu you associate with the registered window class (ie the lpszMenuName of the WNDCLASSEX passed to RegisterClassEx) is the one that the window should be created with - you don't need to use the HMENU parameter of CreateWindowEx as you have done.

If you need to add/remove a menu at run-time take a look at LoadMenu and other menu functions.

[reanimated]

cheers, i still find the api a bit of a minefield.