Command Bars - Menu Switching

Menu Switching

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Topic: Menu Switching

Posted By: tyousef
Subject: Menu Switching
Date Posted: 14 August 2006 at 1:59am

Hi,

I'm working in a multi-Doc application with no Doc-view arch. Just different child frame are loaded in the main frame. Each child frame is dynamically loaded from a separate dll. I need to switch to a different menu with each child frame. So, I simply load each menu in its dll

int CModuleFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)

{

...

HINSTANCE hClientResources = AfxGetResourceHandle();

HINSTANCE hnewInst = ::GetModuleHandle(_T("Module1.dll"));
AfxSetResourceHandle(hnewInst);

m_hMenuShared= ::LoadMenu(hnewInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MODULE1_MENU));

AfxSetResourceHandle(hClientResources);

...

}

and then set it on the MDI activation message.

void CModuleFrame::OnMDIActivate(BOOL bActivate,CWnd* pActivateWnd,CWnd* pDeactivateWnd)
{
     CMDIFrameWnd* pFrame = GetMDIFrame();
     if (pFrame)
    {
        ::SendMessage(pFrame->m_hWndMDIClient, WM_MDISETMENU, (WPARAM)m_hMenuShared, (LPARAM)NULL);
        pFrame->DrawMenuBar();
    }
}

but this doesn't work?

Am I missing something??

Thanks

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 14 August 2006 at 9:11am

Hi,

try manually load menu:

pCommandBars->GetMenuBar()->LoadMenu(pMenu);

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: tyousef
Date Posted: 14 August 2006 at 1:01pm

Thanks a lot oleg. It works.

BUT, is it good to load the menu each time the frame is switched? Don't I need to free (unload) something before each loading?

Also, what is the best way to restore the Mainframe menu when closing all the child frames?

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 14 August 2006 at 2:07pm

Hi,

Actually MFC and Toolkit already have support of MDI child menus without doc temaplte.

See Sample: https://forum.codejock.com/uploads/20060814_140640_ChildMenus.zip - uploads/20060814_140640_ChildMenus.zip

https://forum.codejock.com/uploads/20060814_140533_ChildMenus.zip -

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: tyousef
Date Posted: 16 August 2006 at 3:27am

Thanks oleg.

This is much better. I found out what I was missing and it's working now.

Thanks.