How to Insert a Menu bar to a DialogBox()?

How to Insert a Menu bar to a DialogBox()?

• polymorphicx

  Hi,

  As per the msdn documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/dialogboxes/dialogboxreference/dialogboxfunctions/dialogbox.asp we do get a WM_INITDIALOG message in the dialog procedure. You shall need to use ::SHCreateMenuBar with the appropriate resoureces to created the menubar while handling this message, just as you do it in the OnInitDialog handler; see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wceshellui5/html/wce50lrfSHCreateMenuBar.asp.

  Hope this helps.

  Thanks.

  
  
  

• Daniel_laksjdhfg

  Thank you, it helps a lot!
  
  
  

• Toni Greco

  Hi, I just tried.... But in the page you included.... it says:
  
  SHCreateMenuBar will fail for a Windows Mobile 5.0-based Smartphone
  
  So, if there is another to insert a menu bar into a dialog box in WM 5.0 by calling DialogBox function to create a modal dialog
  
  Thanks for all your help! Appreciate it!
  
  
  
  

• nishanttheone

  Hi,

  Relax :), if you read it again it says that the method shall fail - "if If the specification passed to SHCreateMenuBar function contains images or more than 2 top level menu items, the behavior is as follows.", which means you can't have images in the commandbar and more that 2 menus ( one each for the h/w buttons). As long as you follow these you should be fine. For more infromation on the layout of resources have a look at the first image here http://avinashprasad.spaces.msn.com/photos/

  Hope this helps.

  Thanks

  
  
  
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