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<![endif]-->Hi!

I have a question regarding menus, actually it’s for all kind of GUI resources but we stick to menus for convenience.

We have split up an application in smaller parts with several dll:s with different resurcs like menus, dialogs etc. We’re not really sure how to get it to work with ProfUIS though. We have a base application which holds the main menu that every application got. For each dll they could add their own menus to the application. The main menu is loaded according to your specifications in samples and tutorials.<o:p></o:p>

The question is how to correctly load more than one menu during runtime (created in the VS resource editor) and merge it with a previously created CExtMenuControlBar.

Thanks in advance!

I’m sorry, I didn’t explain the problem as clearly as I should have.

We have everything setup with MFC extension DLLs containing MFC resources as menus for instance. We load the DLLs at runtime without problem but we’re not sure how we correctly merge the menu in a  DLL with the CExtMenuControlBar declared in our application. With correctly I mean how it’s supposed to be done to work as it should with ProfUIS. I’ve seen functions that merge two HMENU:s but I guess we need to do something with statBasicCommands for instance, and if so is it possible to do it at runtime?

You can invoke the CExtCmdManager::UpdateFromMenu() method many times for updating the command manager from all the menu resources in your DLLs. Of course, all the commands in all the menu resources must have unique command identifiers. If you need to display menu in the menu bar which is combination of several menu trees, you need to code your own recursive function which will merge menu trees. This is a very specific feature. Please provide us with more details.

You should create your DLL projects as MFC extension DLLs rather than MFC regular DLLs. The MFC extension DLLs cannot be used from non-MFC-based EXE modules. This should not be a problem. The most important thing is that you can use MFC class instances and resources of MFC extension DLL from EXE’s source code. If you need to load MFC extension library dynamically, you should use the AfxLoadLibrary() function from MFC instead of the LoadLibrary() Win32 function.

Feel free to remove the meta data header that was attached to my message for some reason. =)