menu

[Elyubarov]

Is there a simple message to send a menu(from resource) to see if the menu item is checked?

[anonytmouse]

(GetMenuState(hMenu, IDCMD_PLAYCHICKEN, MF_BYCOMMAND) & MF_CHECKED)

[Elyubarov]

Heh, thanks that worked.

[Elyubarov]

What do you do when you specify the MF_BYPOSITION flag?I am not really sure where to use MF_BYCOMMAND or MF_BYPOSITION like MF_BYCOMMAND sometimes works and I just used the menu identifier for the 2nd paramater, what do I put for MF_BYPOSITION?

[anonytmouse]

You just use the zero-based position of the menu item. For example, if you wanted to check the second menu item, you would use the value 1. I imagine it would usually be more convernient to use MF_BYCOMMAND with the identifier.

[Elyubarov]

maybe this is unrelated to a CheckMenuItem() problem but why doesnt this work?

	case WM_CLOSE:
		if(GetFocus() == hwndtreeparent){
			HMENU hMenu;
			hMenu = GetMenu(hwnd);
			CheckMenuItem(hMenu, IDM_VIEW_WORK, MF_UNCHECKED);
			ShowWindow(hwndtreeparent, SW_HIDE);
			return 0;
		}
	break;