How to change menubar in MDI?

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Hello Friends,

I have created a MFC-MDI app, I want to change menubar on a menu click event. can anyone help me in it.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 27-Jan-11 23:23pm

mikhilv

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Emilio Garavaglia · Answer 1 · 2011-01-28T01:47:00

In general to change the menubar of a window there is the SetMenu function.
(and all the Menu management functions you can find in the CMenu documentation).

But on MDI apps you must be careful about it: the main window menu is -normally- automatically replaced by the MDI active child menu, that is in turn modified adding entries in the second-last (normally named "Window") menu to reflect the actual MDI frame composition.

In other words, MDI defines itself how menus should be managed. Managing them differently violates the paradigm, and may confuse the users (that find a "well known" interface behaving not in the way they expect).

Note that this is not even an MFC issue: there are win32 API (and special default procedures - almost an oxymoron) for MDI parent, client and children.