Loading menus from database

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Let's say I change the number of menu items at one point, and I need to know the number of menus left. I am thinking of a function that would go through the top menu (hMenu) and loop through the entire menu(including submenus), increases a variable accordingly, and breaks out of the loop when a 0 is hit (or when there are no menu items left).

Anyone has any idea how to do this? Thanks in advance.

Posted 28-Jun-10 2:41am

jia tabussam

Updated 28-Jun-10 4:59am

Nish Nishant

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2010-06-28T05:02:00

I wrote an article (for C++) that might be of help. It retrieved menu items from a database and built the entire menu structur for a desktop application from the retrieved menu items. It may help you come up with a design, so here it is:

Dynamically Build Your Menu and/or Toolbar[^]

The key is having your table structure adequately defined to alow for sub menus. I used a numeric menu id for every menu item, and each database record had a column for ParentID so I could associate a menu item with it's parent. A ParentID of 0 indicated a top-lovel menu item.