How to disable a menuItem?

Hi UdiRaz,

first, if you want to use an ID as in your sample you need to do it with 'MF_BYCOMMAND' instead of 'MF_BYPOSITION'.

But, as you told, a sub menu doesn't have an ID, so you'll have to iterate through the menu items of the parent menu until you find the sub menu you want to disable. This way you can examine it's position (index) in the parent menu.

Hope that helps,

ZOPPO

1. How do I iterate through the menu items?
2. How can I examine its position in the parent menu?

Thanks, Udi

Hi,

somehow like this:

// I assume 'hMenu' is the menu-handle to the 'parent' menu
int iPos = -1;

for ( int i = 0; i < GetMenuItemCount( hMenu ); i++ )
{
 MENUITEMINFO inf = { 0 };
 inf.cbSize = sizeof( inf );
 inf.fMask = MIIM_SUBMENU;

 GetMenuItemInfo( hMenu, i, TRUE, &inf );

 if ( NULL == inf.hSubMenu )
 {
  // no sub menu
  continue;
 }

 // here you have to check if the menu item is the sub menu you search for.
 // here we search the item which is a submenu containing ID_LANGUAGES_LANG1
 for ( int j = 0; j < GetMenuItemCount( inf.hSubMenu ) )
 {
  if ( GetMenuItemID( inf.hSubMenu, j ) == ID_LANGUAGES_LANG1 )
  {
   iPos = i;
   break;
  }

  if ( iPos > -1 )
  {
   break;
  }
 }
}

if ( iPos > -1 )
{
 // here iPos is the position index of the sub menu
}


Hope that helps,

ZOPPO

Sorry, in the second 'for' is a bug.

It must be:
>  for ( int j = 0; j < GetMenuItemCount( inf.hSubMenu ); j++ )

I hope there aren't more bugs - I didn't test that code, just wrote it here from the scratch ...

ZOPPO

ID_LANGUAGES_LANG1 is the id of the submenu before I created it some addition submenus. The submenu does not has an ID right now.

m_menu.GetMenuItemCount(); returns the number of main menu items. 8 in my case.

from the 7th menuitem I created some more menuItems and from one of them I create even more. I want the index of the one that has no ID. I am not sure now that it has a position...