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Greetings!

Could you please suggest how to add edit box in place of context (popup) menu item.

ProfUIS_Contols sample has in-place menus, but they are in menu control bar. What I’m need is to add edit box to CExtPopupMenuWnd (if there’s no a different way).

A also noted that CExtPopupMenuWnd has inner class CInPlaceEditWnd. Will that class help me and if yes, how can I reuse it.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards, Maxim Tebenev.

The in-place edit and combo-box fields in pop-up menus were designed for customizable menus. They cannot appear in a pop-up menu loaded form a menu resource or in a Prof-UIS menu updated from a HMENU handle. These fields can appear in menus by marking appropriate command tree nodes stored in the customize site as text field or combo-box field items. These fields can also appear in pop-up menus of non-customizable application by accessing the MENUITEMDATA structure that corresponds to a particular menu item and marking it as a text/combo-box field and by setting callback function pointers for controlling in-place edit control and pop-up list box.

Here is the most simple way to initialize the in-place editor for a menu item:

CExtSafeString strTextBufferForInplaceEdit;
CExtPopupMenuWnd * pPopup = ...
int nItemIndex = ...
CExtPopupMenuWnd::MENUITEMDATA & _mi =
        pPopup->ItemGetInfo( nItemIndex );
    _mi.SetInplaceEdit(
        &strTextBufferForInplaceEdit,
       NULL, // pCbVerifyTextInput
       NULL, // pCbPutTextInputResult
       NULL, // pCbInplaceEditWndProc
       NULL, // LPVOID cookie value that is specific for this edit
       __EXT_MENU_DEF_INPLACE_EDIT_WIDTH // editor width
       );

You can define callback functions of an appropriate type and pass them instead of NULL pointers.

Thanks, it works well.

There’s one problem though. When I press Enter key after typing text in edit box, there’s sound appears like after calling MessageBeep(0). Could you please advice how can I change this behavior.

One more thing regarding to popup menu: popup menu in Prof-UIS doesn’t have method similar to SetMenuDefaultItem Win32 API function. Are you planning to add that feature or is there simple workaround for that?

Thanks in forward!

Best regards, Maxim.

We have added support for default menu items and sent you e-mail with instructions.

The Popup Menus page in the ProfUIS_Controls sample application now displays a context menu with the default About menu item. This menu item is initialized in the CPagePopupMenus::OnContextMenu() method of this sample:

// MAKING "About" menu item default
INT nDefaultItemPos =
        pPopup->ItemFindPosForCmdID(ID_APP_ABOUT);
    if( nDefaultItemPos >= 0 )
        pPopup->ItemDefaultSet(nDefaultItemPos);

The DRAWCLI sample application displays a context menu over the shapes drawn in the view window. The Properties... item in this menu is also marked as the default menu item in the CDrawView::OnExtMenuPrepare() method of this sample application.

We have fixed the problem with the beeping sound in the in-place editor for pop-up menu items. Please find the following code in the CExtPopupMenuWnd::CInPlaceEditWnd::WindowProc() method in the ...\Src\ExtPopupMenuWnd.cpp file:

    else if( message == WM_CHAR )
    {
        ASSERT( m_pStr != NULL );
        CString sTextOld;
        GetWindowText( sTextOld );

and replace it with the following code:

    else if( message == WM_CHAR )
    {
        if( wParam == VK_RETURN ) // added
            return 0; // added
        ASSERT( m_pStr != NULL );
        CString sTextOld;
        GetWindowText( sTextOld );

We have added the default menu item support to our to-do list. This is not difficult because pop-up menu items are already can be marked bold. We just need to handle the VK_RETURN key when there is no selected item in menu.

Thanks, it works fine!

Looking forward for news regarding to bold items in menus.

Best regards, Maxim Tebenev.