Office 2000-like Dockable Menu Bar and Intelligent Menus

To use Office 2000 menu bar in your applications, you have to perform the following steps.

1. Open MDI.rc file with Microsoft Visual C++ and copy every Dialog, String (from String Table) and Menu from this file to your project resource file.
2. Copy Setup Menu from IDR_INT_MENU menu resource to your menu(es) if you want to include menu modification in your application.
3. Copy every cpp and h file from directory containing library sources into your project folder. Include these files into your project.
4. Edit MainFrm.h (main frame window header file) in your project:

   Change class declaration from:

   class CMainFrame : public CMDIFrameWnd

   to:

   #include "MDIFrmEx.h" #include "ToolBarEx.h" class CMainFrame : public CMDIFrameEx

   and change toolbar class from CToolBar to CToolbarEx:

   CToolbar m_wndToolBar;

   becomes:

   CToolbarEx m_wndToolBar;

5. Edit MainFrm.cpp (main frame window source file) in your project:

   Change:

   IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMainFrame, CMDIFrameWnd) BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainFrame, CMDIFrameWnd)

   in:

   IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMainFrame, CMDIFrameEx) BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainFrame, CMDIFrameEx)

   and in the function CMainFrame::OnCreate change:

   if (CMDIFrameWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)

   in:

   if (CMDIFrameEx::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)

6. Edit MyApp.h (application header file) in your project:

   Change  class declaration from:

   class CTestMDIApp : public CWinApp

   to:

   #include "WinAppEx.h" class CTestMDIApp : public CWinAppEx

7. Edit MyApp.cpp (application source file) in your project:

   Change:

   BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CTestMDIApp, CWinApp)

   in:

   #include "DocTplEx.h" BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CTestMDIApp, CWinAppEx)

   and in function CMyApp::InitInstance replace:

   CMultiDocTemplate* pDocTemplate; pDocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate( IDR_TESTMDTYPE, RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestMDIDoc), // custom MDI child frame RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestMDIView)); AddDocTemplate(pDocTemplate); // create main MDI Frame window CMainFrame* pMainFrame = new CMainFrame; if (!pMainFrame->LoadFrame(IDR_MAINFRAME)) return FALSE; m_pMainWnd = pMainFrame;

   with:

   UINT nID; nID=IDR_MAINFRAME; // create main MDI Frame window CMainFrame* pMainFrame = new CMainFrame; if (!pMainFrame->LoadFrame(nID)) return FALSE; m_pMainWnd = pMainFrame; CMultiDocTemplateEx* pDocTemplate; pDocTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplateEx( IDR_TESTMDTYPE, RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestMDIDoc), // custom MDI child frame RUNTIME_CLASS(CChildFrame), RUNTIME_CLASS(CTestMDIView), &nID,1); AddDocTemplate(pDocTemplate); CWinAppEx::InitInstance();

8. Compile and run your application.

If you wish to implement your own intelligent menu algorithms you can derive a class from CMenuBar and override the following functions:

WORD CMenuBar::IncMenuUsage(CMenuEx *pParent, 
                            UINT pos, 
                            WORD curusage)

BOOL CMenuBar::EvaluateIfGrayed(CMenuEx *pParent, 
                                UINT pos, 
                                WORD &curusage, 
                                int iMed, 
                                int iRange)

First function is called to increment current usage of menues. Second one is called to determine if a menu must be painted grayed or not. This function can also modify current usage of menues.If you need to store application defined data in menues you can use CMenuEx::GetExtraDataPtr(UINT) to obtain this extra data.

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