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Menus in dialog windows :

Introduction

This article presents an implementation of an owner drawn menu with the Office XP and Visual Studio .NET visual style.

Using the code

To use the CMenuXP class in your projects, you have to add 3 macros in your code:

1. In the header file of the class that handles the menu (probably the MainFrame):
   

   #include "Tools/MenuXP.h"    // Before the declaration of the class
   
   // ...
   
   
   DECLARE_MENUXP()             // Into the definition of the class

2. In the source file of the same class:

   IMPLEMENT_MENUXP(className, baseClass);

3. In the message map of the class:

   BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(className, baseClass)
       // ...
   
       ON_MENUXP_MESSAGES()   // <-- Added line
   
   END_MESSAGE_MAP()

To make borders flat, I subclass the popup menu window managed by the system. To make it possible, you have to add those 2 calls in your code:

1. In the InitInstance method of your CWinApp derived class:

   CMenuXP::InitializeHook();
   

2. In the ExitInstance method of your CWinApp derived class:

   CMenuXP::UninitializeHook();

To make the menubar flat, you must do this call:

CMenuXP::UpdateMenuBar (pFrameWnd); // pFrameWnd refers to the frame that 

                                    // contains the MenuBar

The best place for this call depends of the frame type:

• For MDI application, into the OnUpdateFrameMenu method of the child windows.
• For SDI application, into the LoadFrame method of the main frame.

Finally, don't forget the last call:

CMenuXP::SetXPLookNFeel (pFrameWnd); // refers to the frame that contains 

                                     // the MenuBar

Without this call, menus will appear in a standard mode.

To draw the menu items, I reused some classes already presented in my article: Office XP look & feel.

History

• 02/08/2002 - First release.
• 01/06/2003 - Adding flat borders and flat menubar.
• 05/31/2003 - Kris Wojtas has updated the source code to allow MenuXP to draw "radio", "check" state and gradient under bitmaps.
• 06/02/2003 - Corrections, radio items support (thanks to Kris Wojtas) and new demos (flat controls and dialog based sample). You can get the latest update to this article at www.azsoft.free.fr.
• 14 Jul 03 - further update by Kris:

  

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images for submenus (i know how) Toxa-TLT 3:41 22 Sep '09   If you want to add custom images for submenus in Dialog-based application, modify code this way: 1. In MenuXP.h in class CMenuXP add function: static void SetMenuItemImage (HMENU hMenu, HIMAGELIST hImgList, int nIndex); 2. In MenuXP.cpp add: void CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage (HMENU hMenu, HIMAGELIST hImgList, int nIndex) { CImgDesc imgDesc (hImgList, nIndex); ms_SubMenuImages.SetAt (hMenu, imgDesc); } 3. For example, to add an image for submenu of main menu just call CMenuXP::SetMenuItemImage and use submenu handle instead of item ID for first parameter. To retrieve menu handle call GetMenu()->GetSubMenu(int nPos0)->GetSubMenu(int nPos1)->m_hMenu in your CDialog. nPos0 - position of top-level submenu nPos1 - position of submenu with your image Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Lisence for this code ramanujamkv 20:06 29 Jun '09   I have downloaded Visual C++ Example: CMenuXP - The Office XP Style Menu By Jean-Michel LE FOL article and code. This application changes all menus, toolbars and status bars to office XP style. Can I use this code for commercial applications and redistribute the application. Please let me know about this. I want to use this in commercial applications. How to contact author for lisence????? Please help me....................... Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: License for this code Jean-Michel LE FOL 23:25 29 Jun '09   Hi, I'm the author of this code ! I'm happy to know that you want to use it in your commercial applications. Please, just add (in AboutBox for example): "Part of code from Jean-Michel LE FOL" or something like that Thanks La perfection est atteinte, non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: License for this code ramanujamkv 1:14 30 Jun '09   Thanks for your quick reply. Is there any License for this code....Please give me detailed information. Thanks & Regards, Ramanujam Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink I'm new player,english is very poor,my skype ID is "liu_zheng82" we are make friend mimijiang 22:59 31 May '09   THANKS Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink The system nenu was mess up johnxwang 10:34 15 Oct '08   Why no one has noticed that the system menu was messed up for the demo project. Any fixing? Thank you Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: The system nenu was mess up johnxwang 10:45 15 Oct '08   Sorry, I found the solution to this problem posted already. Thank you. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Excellent project. Did anyone try to implement this in a non-mfc app (.c file) Sukar 9:32 16 Jun '08   I'm lookin for any suggestions on how to use this in pure WIN32 project which has only .C files... Regards & Thanks Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5 Big icons Nguyen Hoang Quynh 0:02 3 Mar '08   Why my menu's icons is bigger than usual? Help me fix it, please? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 system menu is bad in SDI? Ajean 16:58 9 Apr '07   I use menuxp in my application, but system menu is bad in SDI app,how to correct it? Thank you! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.31/5 help i can not make menu item greyed. Richard Chan 7:06 26 Nov '06   plz help me check this! i used this menu class in dialog Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: help i can not make menu item greyed. Ogottogottogott 22:23 13 Dec '06   This should work: EnableMenuItem( ID_SAMPLEITEM, MF_GRAYED|MF_DISABLED); --  "A can't change the laws of physics. A've got to have thirty minutes." -- Scotty, The Naked Time, stardate 1704.3, Episode 7 Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink It doesn't work with dialog based programme sting_lee 22:56 5 Jul '06   It seems couldn't support the dialog based programme, I could not see the menu defined in the source wizard appears at all,right click and the pop-munu(0) presents. how to solve this? Lee Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 Changing Menu Font at run-time ??? ana_v123 22:22 5 Apr '06   Thanks for this excellent article. How To change menu font (font of menu and submenu items) at runtime ? Is it possible ? How to implement it ? BCGControlBar library has somehow implemented it (but that library is too expensive for small project) Any idea or direction ? Ana Ana_v123 Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 CMenuXP on certain menus myst4ever 14:28 26 Feb '06   Is there a way to make CMenuXP affect only certain menus? I have another menu that is supposed to display like Microsoft's Wordpad's color menu. The menus look good, but I need that one menu to not be drawn like the XP style. Also, my main toolbar is hidden on startup when I try to create another toolbar to show more icons on the menus... Any idea what could be causing this? Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.00/5 Re: CMenuXP on certain menus Parampreet Sidhu 6:02 2 Mar '07   Yes, and thats a problem for me at the moment. Im trying to work out a solution so it *doesnt* happen. My project is an MDI solution which hosts com controls within each child view. These com controls menu merge their own menu's into the applications main menu. They do this by calling ::OleCreateMenuDescriptor and then SetMenu. Ultimately COleClientItem::OnSetMenu gets called, which in turns calls a function ::OleSetMenuDescriptor. I believe its that which is causing the problem (or in your case the solution?). The normal application menus work fine with MenuXP, but the merged menus all look standard. Of course there's not much I can do about this without some rejigging unless I want the com controls to lose their messages from the menus. Ohh and ive tested without a valid descriptor, the menus look good but of course the com controls no longer get their messages (before you ask). Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 Bug: It doesn't work with right to left style k_dehairy 23:42 15 Feb '06   when appling the right to left style the top level menu text doesn't appear!! could anybody help me with that? k_dehairy Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Anyone can help to solve this? Einst 14:01 7 Jan '06   I use this class for trial and it seems work. However when i apply this code into application class to stop creating a new MDI child automatically, the menuXP didn't perform correctly AT FIRST TIME. But when you open the file or create a new file, the menuXP class perform well. you can try to implement this code below in your application class and see what i mean // Don't display a new MDI child window during startup if (cmdInfo.m_nShellCommand == CCommandLineInfo::FileNew) cmdInfo.m_nShellCommand = CCommandLineInfo::FileNothing; cheers Herry -- modified at 19:02 Saturday 7th January, 2006 Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Anyone can help to solve this? barnabe42 21:42 30 Jan '07   The XP style is created while updating the frame menu. As you don't create any window you must call UpdateMenuBar manually. just add the following call after you code, that should do it CMenuXP::UpdateMenuBar(pMainFrame); Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Thank You Einst 1:24 7 Jan '06   Thank You for nice menu class. And much thank you for free commercial licensing Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Novice-I need help to implement this class!! neobavesten 6:58 28 Nov '05   I need to help to implement this class. If anyone is willing to write me step-by-step instruction since I am novice please email me at vip at panet.co.yu I tried everything but I just can't make it work. thanks, Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.67/5 New Use phome 15:46 20 Nov '05   Hi, I cannot find your email in the page. So I post Here. I have write a VC6 project wizard, in which I have use you code 'Office XP Style Menu' here is the URL:http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ExtendMFCWizard.asp[^] Phome Good day,Good job,Good life Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Transparencies? jgt02 6:16 28 Sep '05   Hello. I was wondering if there was any current support (or successful hacks) for making the menus transparent? Thanks in advance. (And great job thus far.) Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 the same question ahoye 21:44 12 Jul '06   i tried to make manu bar transparent failed! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Fix for SystemMenu Ingo H. de Boer 14:08 14 May '05   Hi, to fix the strange/broken look of the system menu, just add the following lines in CMenuXP::SetXPLookNFeel : ... if ( pWnd->IsKindOf (RUNTIME_CLASS(CMDIFrameWnd)) ) { CMDIChildWnd* pActiveChild = ((CMDIFrameWnd*)pWnd)->MDIGetActive(); if ( pActiveChild != NULL && pActiveChild->GetSystemMenu (false)->GetSafeHmenu() == hMenu ) { CMenuItemXP::ms_rcMRUMenuBarItem.SetRectEmpty(); return; } // new lines start if ( AfxGetMainWnd() != NULL && AfxGetMainWnd()->GetSystemMenu(false)->GetSafeHmenu() == hMenu ) { CMenuItemXP::ms_rcMRUMenuBarItem.SetRectEmpty(); return; } // new lines end } ... greets Ingo Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 1.50/5

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