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Is it possible to prevent images from displaying in the menus when using the the CExtMenuControlBar.

eg.

a CExtCmdItem has its icon set for the toolbar. A menu is loaded with the same ID but you do not want the icon to show in the menu.

Is this senario possible.

Dear Thomas,

Thank you for the good question.

Your task is possible via handling Prof-UIS menu item painting message. You should add the message handler for the CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgPopupDrawItem registered message to your frame window:

1) Method declaration
afx_msg LRESULT OnDrawPopupMenuItem( WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam );

2) Message map entry
ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE( CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgPopupDrawItem, OnDrawPopupMenuItem )

3) Method body

LRESULT CMainFrame::OnDrawPopupMenuItem(
	WPARAM wParam,
	LPARAM lParam
	)
{
CExtPopupMenuWnd::DRAWITEMDATA * pDrawItemData =
		reinterpret_cast
			< CExtPopupMenuWnd::DRAWITEMDATA * >
		 		 ( lParam );
	ASSERT( pDrawItemData != NULL );
	pDrawItemData->PaintDefault(
		true, // force no paint icon
		false, // force no paint text
		false, // force no paint check/radio mark
		false, // force paint as enabled
		false, // force paint as unselected
		);
	// return non-zero value if item repainted
	// by this message handler
	return (!0);
}

This method will "disable" icon painting for any menu in the frame window. To detect whether menu bar has dropped popup menu, you need to invoke CExtToolControlBar::GetMenuTrackingButton() method of the menu bar window. This method return a value which is less than zero if no popup menu is dropped from the menubar.

Best regards, Sergiy.

Thankyou for your quick reply Sergiy

I seem to have some issue with getting this method to work.

Here is how I have followed it through (sorry if its a hard to follow my explanations could do with some work)

The CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgPopupDrawItem messgae is sent from the CExtPopupMenuWnd::DRAWITEMDATA::DoOwnerDrawPainting() function.

The above function is called from CExtPopupMenuWnd::_DoPaint function only when the TPMX_OWNERDRAW_FIXED flag is not set on the m_dwTrakFlags variable according to line 6638 of ExtPopupMenuWnd.cpp

m_dwTrackFlags is set on line 5654 of ExtPopupMenuWnd.cpp from the function CExtPopupMenuWnd::_TrackPopupMenu ’s parameter dwTrackflags

This parameter is passed through from CExtPopupMenuWnd::TrackPopupMenu which is call from CExtBarButton::OnTrackPopup where the dwTracksFlag is hard coded to set the TPMX_OWNERDRAW_FIXED flag on line 1226 of ExtToolControlBar.cpp

The only place I could find where the TPMX_CUSTOMIZE_MODE flag is unset was in the CExtPopupMenuWnd::TrackPopupMenu function on line 4878 of ExtPopupMenuWnd.cpp but this only occurs if the TPMX_CUSTOMIZE_MODE flag is set which I assume is only set when the ui is in customize mode.

So based on that is it true that the CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgPopupDrawItem message will not be sent when a CExtPopupMenuWnd is displayed from a CExtBarButton which makes up the CExtMenuControlBar

Dear Tomas,

It seems . . . I have misunderstanding . . . or . . . you are using the old version of the library. The suggested source code in my previous message is working and line 1611 of ExtToolControlBar.cpp is:

DWORD dwTrackFlags =
		OnGetTrackPopupFlags()
		|  TPMX_COMBINE_DEFAULT
		| TPMX_OWNERDRAW_FIXED
		; 

These lines are part of the CExtBarButton::OnTrackPopup() method. The CExtBarButton class implements any kind of the button in toolbar/menubar and there are no strong differences between buttons inside CExtToolControlBar and inside CExtMenuControlBar. All the popup menus (instances if CExtPopupMenuWnd class) dropped from toolbar/menubar always have the TPMX_OWNERDRAW_FIXED style and menu item painting message will always be sent to your CMainFrame window.

You should receive e-mail with my sample project attached. This project includes the same menu painting code I wrote in my previous message.

Best regards, Sergiy.

P.S. my sample source code was tested with Prof-UIS version 2.22 freeware which is available to download from this site.