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I want to disable the items of a popup menu.

but this code is not working, so can u give me the perfect code to disable a menuitem
mycode :
CMenu aMenu;
    aMenu.LoadMenuW(IDR_MENU1);
    CMenu *pPopUpMenu = aMenu.GetSubMenu(0);
    pPopUpMenu->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_LEFTALIGN|TPM_RIGHTBUTTON,point.x,point.y,this);
    //pPopUpMenu->CreateMenu();
    //pPopUpMenu->EnableMenuItem(ID_CUT_COPY,MF_BYCOMMAND|MF_DISABLED);
    //AfxMessageBox("pPopUpMenu->GetMenuItemID(-1)",MB_OK);
    /*AfxGetMainWnd()->OnCmdMsg(state.m_nID, CN_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI, &state, NULL);
    AfxGetMainWnd()->OnCmdMsg(nid,ID_CUT_COPY,FALSE,NULL);    */
    pPopUpMenu->RemoveMenu(ID_POPUP_DELETE,TRUE);
    pPopUpMenu->EnableMenuItem(ID_POPUP_CUT,MF_BYCOMMAND|MF_DELETE);

To disable the entire popup menu, you should handle the CExtPopupMenuWnd::g_nMsgPrepareOneMenuLevel registered message. For example, here is the code that disables the Toolbars sub menu.

LRESULT CMainFrame::OnExtMenuPrepare(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    CExtPopupMenuWnd::MsgPrepareMenuData_t * pData =
        reinterpret_cast
        < CExtPopupMenuWnd::MsgPrepareMenuData_t * >
        ( wParam );
    ASSERT( pData != NULL );
    CExtPopupMenuWnd * pPopup = pData->m_pPopup;
    ASSERT( pPopup != NULL );
    
    INT nItemPos = pPopup->ItemFindByText( _T("&Toolbars") );
    if( nItemPos > 0 )
    {
        CExtPopupMenuWnd::MENUITEMDATA & _mii = pPopup->ItemGetInfo( nItemPos );
        if( _mii.IsPopup() )
            _mii.SetForcePopupDisabled( true );
    }

    return 1L;
}

I can’t see any Prof-UIS related code, but here’s a possible solution, after all:

pPopUpMenu->TrackPopupMenu method shows your menu on the screen, so pPopUpMenu->RemoveMenu and pPopUpMenu->EnableMenuItem calls are just called after the popup menu has been closed. You should put pPopUpMenu->TrackPopupMenu line at the very end of this code snippet.

If that still doesn’t get your command disabled, you should go for the MFC command updating mechanism:
1. insert a line in your class’s message map:
ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI(ID_YOUR_COMMAND_TO_DISABLE, OnUpdateYourCommand)
2. add the following method for your class:
2.a) in .h:
afx_msg void OnUpdateYourCommand(CCmdUI* pCmdUI);
2.b) in .cpp:
void CYourClass::OnUpdateYourCommand(CCmdUI* pCmdUI)
{
    pCmdUI->Enable(FALSE);
}

Check out this forum thread: CExtPopupMenuWnd::ItemEnabledSet
Support’s answer to this question should help you, too.