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:
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:
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::CMainFrame()
{
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:
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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