Is it possible to disable certain menu options of the application's MainFrame? I need to disable/gray certain options, like saving, based on the user's access level, but the resource editor isn't helping. In Visual C++ 5, I select "gray" in the properties but when I run the application it seems to have no effect. It works on my context menu, just not on the main menu. I also can't even find the code that creates & handles the main menu; where is it for a SDI application?
Thanks in advance
>>> Is it possible to disable certain menu options of the application's MainFrame?
Yes. I'm guessing you are using MFC, and as MFC is just a wrapper around the >Win32 API, and you can do it with the API, then you should have no problem doing it with MFC.
I don't use MFC, but I'm guessing, you could create a CMenu object and attach it to your window with InsertMenu. You could then use the CMenu objects methods to enable/disable items.
You may also find your window already has the CMenu object in it, is there a pointer or something in your class?
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Right, I am using MFC...
I looked through the CMainFrame:: functions, like OnShowWindow and OnCreate and found where it creates the toolbar and status bar, but no main menu. Also no menu creator in my CDocument or CView classes. I guess it's being created somewhere else, which explains why the resource editor has no effect, but where?
