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Hi,
I have docking bars that i don’t want to be displayed in the right click menu which displays all the bars.
What function controls this?
Thanks.

I use this code to remove MenuBar’s entry from all right-click popup menus:
in MainFrm.h:

	afx_msg LRESULT OnConstructPopupMenuCB(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

in MainFrm.cpp:

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainFrame, CFrameWnd)
	...
	ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE(CExtControlBar::g_nMsgConstructPopupMenu, OnConstructPopupMenuCB)
	...
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
...
LRESULT CMainFrame::OnConstructPopupMenuCB(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	ASSERT_VALID( this );
	lParam;
	CExtControlBar::POPUP_MENU_EVENT_DATA * p_pmed =
		CExtControlBar::POPUP_MENU_EVENT_DATA::FromWParam( wParam );
	ASSERT( p_pmed != NULL );
	ASSERT_VALID( p_pmed->m_pPopupMenuWnd );
	if( p_pmed->m_bPostNotification )
	{
		VERIFY( p_pmed->m_pPopupMenuWnd->ItemRemove( p_pmed->m_pPopupMenuWnd->ItemFindPosForCmdID(AFX_IDW_DIALOGBAR))
			);
	}
	return 0;
}

You can customize it by writing different ID in place of AFX_IDW_DIALOGBAR.

Thanks!
Problem solved.

In addition to what Chris said, there is another solution: set the CExtControlBar::m_bAppearInDockSiteControlBarPopupMenu property to false. This is applicable to any control bar (toolbar, menu bar, resizable control bar, and panel bar).

Another question - what is the sort order in this menu?
It is not alphabetical.

The control bars are shown in the order of creation (the order of constructor calls). For example, if you declare control bars in the following order:

CExtControlBar    m_wndResizableBar0;
CExtControlBar    m_wndResizableBar1;
CExtControlBar    m_wndResizableBar2;
CExtControlBar    m_wndResizableBar3;
CExtControlBar    m_wndResizableBar4;

they will be shown in this order:

m_wndResizableBar0;
m_wndResizableBar1;
m_wndResizableBar2;
m_wndResizableBar3;
m_wndResizableBar4;

Is there any way of changing it to be sorted?
I have limited control over the order, the bars are plug-ins.

You can modify and rebuild any of the built-in Prof-UIS menus. This is demonstrated in the ProfStudio sample, where you can see menus with lists of control bars organized into groups. So you could do this in a similar way, using the CExtControlBar::g_nMsgConstructPopupMenu message (it is handled in the CMainFrame::OnConstructPopupMenuCB() method in ProfStudio).

Even Better!