Owner drawn menu with bitmaps, icons, and colors

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Introduction

The article presents an implementation of an owner drawn menu with the Windows XP and Icon select style. To use this code download the demo project. The demo project has 3 menu styles which demonstrate how to create XP menu and Icon selected menu. To add owner drawn menus to your own project follow these 6 steps:

Step 1

Add the following files to your project:

• MenuCH.cpp
• MenuCH.h

Step 2

In MainFrm.h - add this line to the top of the file:

#include "MenuCH.h"

Step 3

In MainFrm.h - Add CMainFrame member variables of type CMenuCH.

protected:  // control bar embedded members
    CStatusBar  m_wndStatusBar;
    CToolBar    m_wndToolBar;
    CMenuCH    m_FileMenu, m_EditMenu,
        m_ViewMenu, m_HelpMenu;
    CMenuCH    m_ElementMenu;
    CMenuCH    GraphMenu,ColorMenu;

Step 4

In MainFrm.cpp - place the following statements in CMainFrame()

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CMainFrame construction/destruction

CMainFrame::CMainFrame()
{
    // TODO: add member initialization code here
    m_FileMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
    m_FileMenu.SetMenuHeight(20);
    m_FileMenu.SetMenuWidth(150);
    m_FileMenu.SetMenuType(MIT_XP);
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_NEW,
        "&New\tCtrl+N",IDB_NEW);
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_OPEN,
        "&Open\tCtrl+O",IDB_OPEN);
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_CLOSE,
        "&Close");
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_SAVE,
        "&Save\tCtrl+S",IDB_SAVE);
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_SAVE_AS,
        "Save &As...");
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR,0,"");
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_PRINT,
        "&Print...",IDB_PRINT);
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_PRINT_PREVIEW,
        "Print Pre&view");
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_FILE_PRINT_SETUP,
        "P&rint Setup...");
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR,0,"");
    m_FileMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_APP_EXIT,
        "E&xit");

    m_EditMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
    m_EditMenu.SetMenuHeight(20);
    m_EditMenu.SetMenuWidth(165);
    m_EditMenu.SetMenuType(MIT_XP);
    m_EditMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_EDIT_UNDO,
        "Redo\tCtrl+Z",IDB_UNDO);
    m_EditMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_EDIT_REDO,
        "Undo\tCtrl+Y",IDB_REDO);
    m_EditMenu.AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR,0,"");
    m_EditMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_EDIT_CUT, 
        "Cut\tCtrl+X",IDB_CUT);
    m_EditMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_EDIT_COPY, 
        "Copy\tCtrl+C",IDB_COPY);
    m_EditMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_EDIT_PASTE,
        "Paste\tCtrl+V",IDB_PASTE);


    m_ViewMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
    m_ViewMenu.SetMenuHeight(20);
    m_ViewMenu.SetMenuWidth(170);
    m_ViewMenu.SetMenuType(MIT_XP);
    m_ViewMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_VIEW_TOOLBAR, 
        "&Toolbar");
    m_ViewMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_VIEW_STATUS_BAR,
        "&Status Bar");

    m_HelpMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
    m_HelpMenu.SetMenuHeight(20);
    m_HelpMenu.SetMenuWidth(160);
    m_HelpMenu.SetMenuType(MIT_XP);
    m_HelpMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_APP_ABOUT,
        "&About BmpMenuDemo...",IDB_HELP);

    GraphMenu.CreateMenu();
    GraphMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_GRAPHPART1BOX,"",
        NULL,AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_LINE));
    GraphMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_GRAPHPART2BOX,"",
        NULL,AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_GRAPHIC));
    GraphMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED|MF_MENUBREAK,ID_GRAPHPART3BOX,
        "",NULL,AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_CIRCLE));
    GraphMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_GRAPHPART4BOX,"",
        NULL,AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_POLYGON));
    GraphMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED|MF_MENUBREAK,
        ID_GRAPHPART5BOX,"",NULL,AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_ARC));
    GraphMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,ID_GRAPHPART6BOX,"",
        NULL,AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_TEXT));

    m_ElementMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
    m_ElementMenu.SetMenuType(MIT_ICON);
    m_ElementMenu.AppendMenu(MF_SEPARATOR,0,"");
    m_ElementMenu.AppendMenu(MF_POPUP,
        (UINT)GraphMenu.m_hMenu,"Element");

    ColorMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
    ColorMenu.SetMenuHeight(18);
    ColorMenu.SetMenuWidth(6);
    ColorMenu.SetMenuType(MIT_COLOR);
    char clrValue[64];
    for(int i=1; i<=16; i++)
    {
        wsprintf(clrValue,"%d",rgbColors[i-1]);
        if( i%4 == 1 )
            ColorMenu.AppendMenu(MF_MENUBREAK|MF_ENABLED,
            i,clrValue);
        else
            ColorMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED,i,clrValue);
    }
    m_ElementMenu.AppendMenu(MF_POPUP,(UINT)ColorMenu.m_hMenu,
        "Colors");
}

Step 5

In MainFrm.cpp - Add CMainFrame member function CreateMenu() and place the following statements:

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CMainFrame message handlers
void CMainFrame::CreateMenu()
{
    CMenu* pMenu = this->GetMenu();
    pMenu->RemoveMenu(0,MF_BYPOSITION);
    pMenu->RemoveMenu(0,MF_BYPOSITION);
    pMenu->RemoveMenu(0,MF_BYPOSITION);
    pMenu->RemoveMenu(0,MF_BYPOSITION);
    pMenu->RemoveMenu(0,MF_BYPOSITION);

    pMenu->InsertMenu(0,MF_BYPOSITION|MF_POPUP,
        (UINT)m_FileMenu.m_hMenu,"&File");  
    pMenu->InsertMenu(1,MF_BYPOSITION|MF_POPUP,
        (UINT)m_EditMenu.m_hMenu,"&Edit");
    pMenu->InsertMenu(2,MF_BYPOSITION|MF_POPUP,
        (UINT)m_ViewMenu.m_hMenu,"&View");
    pMenu->InsertMenu(3,MF_BYPOSITION|MF_POPUP,
        (UINT)m_HelpMenu.m_hMenu,"&Help");
    pMenu->InsertMenu(4,MF_BYPOSITION|MF_POPUP,
        (UINT)m_ElementMenu.m_hMenu,"&Element");
}

Step 6

In MainFrm.cpp - call CreateMenu() in CMainFrame::OnCreate.

int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    if (CFrameWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
        return -1;
    ...

        CreateMenu();
}

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