some questions on menu~

hi all~

i've created a simple window and now have a few questions about menu:

1. my book told me to build a menu we need create certain menu class and corresponding header files first, but how to make it manually ?
2. how to config the menu(or the whole window) appears as win2k or winxp style ?(just like what dev-c++ do)

tks.

You should try searching for Ownerdraw menu

Here is the code I'm using in my current project to create a menu:

Code:

	/* Create the menu */
	{
		HMENU		hFileMenu, hWindowMenu, hViewMenu;

		/* Create the "File" menu, and its selections */
		hFileMenu = CreateMenu();
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_NEW,_T("New"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_CLOSE,_T("Close"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_CLOSEALL,_T("Close All"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,MF_SEPARATOR,0,0);
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_CONNECT,_T("Connect"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,MF_SEPARATOR,0,0);
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_EXIT,_T("Exit"));

		/* Create the "View" menu */
		hViewMenu = CreateMenu();
		AppendMenu(hViewMenu,0,IDMENU_VIEW_SETTINGS,_T("Settings"));

		/* Create the "Window" menu */
		hWindowMenu = CreateMenu();

		/* Create the Frame menu, and add all the sub menus to it */
		g_hMenuFrame = CreateMenu();
		AppendMenu(g_hMenuFrame,MF_POPUP,(UINT_PTR)hFileMenu,_T("File"));
		AppendMenu(g_hMenuFrame,MF_POPUP,(UINT_PTR)hViewMenu,_T("View"));
		AppendMenu(g_hMenuFrame,MF_POPUP,(UINT_PTR)hWindowMenu,_T("Window"));
	}

All the IDMENU_* identifiers need to be defined somewhere in your project. Once you have the menu created (g_hMenuFrame in my example code), you then pass that menu handle to CreateWindow().

Originally Posted by bithub

Here is the code I'm using in my current project to create a menu:

Code:

	/* Create the menu */
	{
		HMENU		hFileMenu, hWindowMenu, hViewMenu;

		/* Create the "File" menu, and its selections */
		hFileMenu = CreateMenu();
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_NEW,_T("New"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_CLOSE,_T("Close"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_CLOSEALL,_T("Close All"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,MF_SEPARATOR,0,0);
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_CONNECT,_T("Connect"));
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,MF_SEPARATOR,0,0);
		AppendMenu(hFileMenu,0,IDMENU_FILE_EXIT,_T("Exit"));

		/* Create the "View" menu */
		hViewMenu = CreateMenu();
		AppendMenu(hViewMenu,0,IDMENU_VIEW_SETTINGS,_T("Settings"));

		/* Create the "Window" menu */
		hWindowMenu = CreateMenu();

		/* Create the Frame menu, and add all the sub menus to it */
		g_hMenuFrame = CreateMenu();
		AppendMenu(g_hMenuFrame,MF_POPUP,(UINT_PTR)hFileMenu,_T("File"));
		AppendMenu(g_hMenuFrame,MF_POPUP,(UINT_PTR)hViewMenu,_T("View"));
		AppendMenu(g_hMenuFrame,MF_POPUP,(UINT_PTR)hWindowMenu,_T("Window"));
	}

All the IDMENU_* identifiers need to be defined somewhere in your project. Once you have the menu created (g_hMenuFrame in my example code), you then pass that menu handle to CreateWindow().

tks man ! i love CreateMenu lol

one more thing, is there any efficiency difference btween CreateMenu and .rc resources ? i think program size may be smaller by CreateMenu way but less efficiency when running, anyway i dont proof it.

If there is a difference, it's too small to worry about.