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I wonder how the framework selects which control bars get inserted in the pop-up menu by default. When I right-click on the empty area of the toolbar menu, I get a popup menu of control bars. In one application, I have all the control bars showed up, this is what I wanted. In another application, only toolbars showed up, the menu bar and resizable dialog bar didn’t show up. I have checked many times, there doesn’t seem to be any difference between the two applications as far as the way I use control bars is concerned. What could be the problem? I am aware of the FAQ on how to customize popup menu, but I don’t want to customize it, the default behavior should be just what I wanted.

A control bar is not displayed in context menus only if Prof-UIS cannot find the display name of this control bar. This is true for control bars of all types. The display name can be one of the following:

1) The window text of the control bar specified when it is created with CExtControlBar::Create().

2) The text of the menu item which has the same command identifier as the control bar’s dialog control identifier specified when it is created with CExtControlBar::Create(). Typically this menu item is used for showing/hiding the control bar.

So please check this for your menu bar and dialog bar. Besides all control bars should have unique identifiers otherwise you will be unable to show/hide some of them and restore their states.

Finally, it is possible to hide any control bar in context menus if you set the CExtControlBar::m_bAppearInDockSiteControlBarPopupMenu property to false.