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:

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        /* 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"));
        }

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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().

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Originally Posted by bithub

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

Code:

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        /* 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"));
        }

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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().

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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.