Dynamic Menu Creation and Processing...

[cpeschke]

I have run into a block trying to figure out how I can load specific files from a directory into a menu and click them to launch to files. I have no problems loading my menu up, the problem comes in with the Windows Processing.

Basically I increment an integer to add files sequentially, like so...

void loadMenu(HMENU hMenu) {
     char *RecentDocs;
     RecentDocs = GetRecentDocs();

     strcat(RecentDocs, "\\*.lnk");

     int iMenuCount = 0, bMenu = 0;
     HANDLE hFile = 0;
     WIN32_FIND_DATA wfs;
     hFile = FindFirstFile(RecentDocs, &wfs);
     DWORD dwError;

     iMenuCount = GetMenuItemCount(hMenu);
     while (iMenuCount > -1) {
          RemoveMenu(hMenu, iMenuCount, MF_BYPOSITION);
          iMenuCount--;
     }

     if (hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE && hFile != NULL) {
          if (IsValidFile(wfs.cFileName) == 1) {
               bMenu++;
               AppendMenu(hMenu, MF_STRING, (mnuFiles + bMenu), left(wfs.cFileName, strlen(wfs.cFileName) - 4));
          }
          while (FindNextFile(hFile, &wfs) != 0) {
               if (IsValidFile(wfs.cFileName) == 1) {
                    bMenu++;
		            AppendMenu(hMenu, MF_STRING, (mnuFiles + bMenu), left(wfs.cFileName, strlen(wfs.cFileName) - 4));
               }
          }
          dwError = GetLastError();
          if (dwError == ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES) {
              FindClose(hFile);
          }
     }
     if (bMenu == 0) {
          AppendMenu(hMenu, MF_STRING | MF_GRAYED, 0, "(Empty)");
     }
}

mnuFiles above being a globally defined as 460 and the function IsValidFile verifies that the file is not a directory.

The problem is now how I can get the menu text information (so from there I can create the file path and launch the file). Trying to use GetMenuString has caused crashes.

I can't find if the menu id information is maybe in the lparam part of the processing.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[cpeschke]

I figured it out after much pain, here is what is in my Windows Procedure (Just a messagebox for the text right now but it works)...

     default: {
          char sTemp[MAX_PATH];
          if (GetMenuString(hFiles, LOWORD(wParam), sTemp, MAX_PATH, MF_BYCOMMAND)) {
               MessageBox(hWnd, sTemp, "Test", 0);
          }
     }

Hope that helps others!