Enabling/Disabling Menu Popups

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This question is very urgent for me right now.

Use the EnableMenuItem() function like

EnableMenuItem(hMenu,ItemPosition,MF_BYPOSITION | MF_DISABLED | MF_GRAYED);

Let me know if you have any questions.

Actually Im rejecting this answer, not because it doesnt answer it except it doesnot answer my need.  What happens when a view within a document is open maximized it throws off the offsets of the menus by 1, so in not all circumstances does Enablemenuitem work.  Is there a way to access all menu items within m_pSubmenu from the ccmdui parameter within ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI

>> Is there a way to access all menu items within
>> m_pSubmenu from the ccmdui parameter within >> ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI
I assume that is MFC-speak?

In non-MFC speak, you can iterate through the menu items in the menu using GetMenuItemInfo() until you find the menu item you want.  You can identify the munu item from the submenu handle it stored or from its menu ID.

How do you identify it through the submenu handle?

You have to save the sub-menu handle "somewhere" then when you iterate through the menu items look for one where the hSubMenu member of the MENUITEMINFO structure uequals this saved menu handle.

Alternately you can set the menu item's ID at the start, then look for that ID later.  

There might be better ways, but I don't know of any.

I think im going to have to traverse the menus.  thanks anyway

joepaladin, have your read the question history?

justinpop, what is happening to this question?