Discover how to create an owner drawn menu. Includes coverage of building a class for the menu and for the menu's data.
Create an Owner Draw Menu - Step by Step
Published 06/14/2002
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Owner Drawn Menu with Icons (3) (uses toolbar res)
Published 01/04/2002
This class, BCMenu, implements owner drawn menus derived from the CMenu class. Updated to look good with Windows XP and more.
CommandUI Message Handling with Popup Menus
Published 11/07/2000
Illustrates how to overcome message handling Issues with popup menus that are owned by a non-CFrameWnd derived classes
Office 2000-like Dockable Menu Bar and Intelligent Menus
Published 08/28/2000
Create your own "intelligent menus" like Windows 2000 and Office 2000 !!
Implementing Tooltips for Menus
Published 04/27/2000
Illustrates how to implement tooltips for menus by overriding some key CMainFrame functions
Cool Popup Menu
Published 01/22/2000
Class to create menu with vertical bitmap along left side of menu (similar to Start menu)
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