Menus again

[Amon Ra]

Ok, i got my menus working al from API, and I am working on some owner-drawn ones. Let's say i change the number of menu item at one point, 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 menus, increases a variable accordingly, and breaks out of the loop when a 0 is hit(or when there are no menus left)Anyone has any idea how to help me?(just give me clear hints, so i can actually come up with the formula myself thanks in advance

[Amon Ra]

just to clarify, i basically need to write a function that can count the number of menu items at run-time. So please, just give me a few clear hints, so ican try to figure it out Thanks

[Amon Ra]

It would be nice if this function could also retrieve the state of each menu and store in an array with its ID

[parksie]

Platform SDK: Windows User Interface
Menu Functions
The following functions are used with menus.

Function Description
AppendMenu Appends an item to various menus and submenus.
CheckMenuItem Checks or clears a menu item.
CheckMenuRadioItem Checks a specified menu item and makes it a radio item.
CreateMenu Creates a menu.
CreatePopupMenu Creates a drop-down menu, submenu, or shortcut menu.
DeleteMenu Deletes a menu item.
DestroyMenu Deletes a menu.
DrawMenuBar Redraws a menu bar.
EnableMenuItem Enables, disables, or grays a menu item.
EndMenu Ends the calling thread's active menu.
GetMenu Gets a handle to the menu.
GetMenuBarInfo Gets information about a menu bar.
GetMenuCheckMarkDimensions Returns the dimensions of the default check-mark bitmap.
GetMenuDefaultItem Gets the default menu item on a menu.
GetMenuInfo Gets information about a menu.
GetMenuItemCount Gets the number of items in a menu.
GetMenuItemID Gets the identifier of a menu item.
GetMenuItemInfo Gets information about a menu item.
GetMenuItemRect Gets the bounding rectangle for a menu item.
GetMenuState Gets the menu flags associated with a menu item.
GetMenuString Copies the text string of a menu item into a buffer.
GetSubMenu Gets a handle to the drop-down menu or submenu activated by a menu item.
GetSystemMenu Allows copying or modifying of a window menu.
HiliteMenuItem Highlights or removes the highlighting from an item in a menu bar.
InsertMenu Inserts a new menu item into a menu.
InsertMenuItem Inserts a new menu item in a menu.
IsMenu Determines when a handle is a menu handle.
LoadMenu Loads a menu resource.
LoadMenuIndirect Loads a specified menu template.
MenuItemFromPoint Determines which menu item is at a specified location.
ModifyMenu Changes an existing menu item.
RemoveMenu Deletes a menu item or detaches a submenu from a menu.
SetMenu Assigns a new menu to a window.
SetMenuDefaultItem Sets the default menu item for a menu.
SetMenuInfo Sets information for a menu.
SetMenuItemBitmaps Associates a bitmap with a menu item.
SetMenuItemInfo Changes information about a menu item.
TrackPopupMenu Displays a shortcut menu at a location and tracks item selection on a menu.
TrackPopupMenuEx Displays a shortcut menu at a location and tracks item selection on a shortcut menu.

[Amon Ra]

THanks Parksie, i will work with that

[parksie]

Be on your guard for things that are 98/2000 specific, because I noticed a few while browsing through the docs.

[Amon Ra]

If i have

THEITEM item[];

can i do that after i wrote my function

item[mennumber];

If not, how would i resize the array to the number of menus?

[parksie]

No. You need:

THEITEM *pItems;

// ...find the number of items...

pItems = new THEITEM[number_of_items];

// ...use the array...

delete[] pItems; // Kill it off again