Adding a Menu to a Dialogbox?

Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to add a menu to my Dialogbox as I use it as the main window for my entire program.

My RC file looks like this

Code:

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IDD_MAIN_DLG DIALOGEX 200, 100, 329, 200
STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION |
    WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "Removed"
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg" // , 400, 0, 0x1
BEGIN
    LTEXT          "Server Address:",IDC_STATIC,68,14,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_SERVER_ADDRESS,125,10,100,12,ES_CENTER | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
    LTEXT          "From:",IDC_STATIC,18,44,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_FROM,40,40,100,12,ES_CENTER | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
    LTEXT          "To:",IDC_STATIC,185,44,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_TO,200,40,100,12,ES_CENTER | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
    LTEXT          "Subject:",IDC_STATIC,18,64,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_FROM,45,60,250,12,ES_RIGHT | ES_AUTOHSCROLL

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The rest is not implemented yet but it is working thus far. It is invoked through this command in the main program.

Code:

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        DialogBox(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_MAIN_DLG),
                  hWnd, reinterpret_cast<DLGPROC>(DlgProc));

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I'm not sure where I would specifiy a menu, I know a couple ways of creating them, but you need to load them using loadMenu and createwindowex which I don't use. If it's possible to add a menu to the dialogbox, I'd really appreciate knowing how.

Use the MENU statement which is one of a number of optional parameters of the DIALOGEX resource definition statement to associate a menu with your dialog box resource. For example, if you have defined a menu in your resource script with an id of ID_MENU then your script becomes:

Code:

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IDD_MAIN_DLG DIALOGEX 200, 100, 329, 200
STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION |
    WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "Removed"
MENU ID_MENU
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg" // , 400, 0, 0x1
BEGIN
LTEXT          "Server Address:",IDC_STATIC,68,14,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_SERVER_ADDRESS,125,10,100,12,ES_CENTER | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
    LTEXT          "From:",IDC_STATIC,18,44,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_FROM,40,40,100,12,ES_CENTER | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
    LTEXT          "To:",IDC_STATIC,185,44,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_TO,200,40,100,12,ES_CENTER | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
    LTEXT          "Subject:",IDC_STATIC,18,64,72,8
    EDITTEXT        IDC_FROM,45,60,250,12,ES_RIGHT | ES_AUTOHSCROLL
END

/*example menu resource
You must #define ID_MENU with some suitable value*/
ID_MENU MENU
BEGIN
  POPUP "&File"
    BEGIN
      MENUITEM "&Open...\tCtrl+O", IDM_FILE_OPEN, GRAYED
      MENUITEM "&Save...\tCtrl+S", IDM_FILE_SAVE
      MENUITEM SEPARATOR
      MENUITEM "E&xit",            IDCANCEL
    END
END

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A list of the available resource defintion statements can be found on this msdn page.

It worked perfect, thanks ;)