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I’m wondering whether it’s a bug or I missed something here. We were not able to set/add a bitmap to a menu item of system menu.

Our legacy app would dynamically change the system menu of the main frame window. The main frame wnd is derived from CExtNCW<CUfcFrameWnd>, we also use CExtMenuControlBar inside the main frame window

Based on the context, we need to update the system menu or insert a new menu item. what we did was

- get the system menu handler

hMenu = ::GetSystemMenu(hWndFrame, FALSE);

- update the system menu
::ModifyMenu( hmenu, nPos, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_BITMAP, uMenuID, (LPCTSTR)hBmp );

But when I looked at the system menu, it shows an empty menu item, there is neither icon nor string. This approach works well with the text, as I can add new string menu item without any problem. Another problem I found is that owner draw menu doesn’t work.

any suggestion ? Should I overwrite CExtMenuControlBar::_TrackFrameSystemMenu() ?

thanks

sorry for the typo when I copied and pasted the code snippet. I just send a sample project which shows the problem, could you take a look

thanks