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Hello:

I’m rather new to Prof-UIs and I’m none too experienced at figuring out how to search the support forums. Is there a better way than using Google’s advanced search features and restricting the site to www.prof-uise.com? Anyway, on to the real question...

I’ve created an MDI application that uses CExtTabMdiWnd to display several documents at a time. The tabs are working fine. I like the little pulldown menu at the right side of the tabs that lists the currently open windows; it looks like a line atop a downward pointing triangle. I have a separate frame window located within an CExtControlBar which has a different view of the "topmost" MDI window.

Within the frame, I’d like a right-mouse-button popup menu that looks like:
My Command 1
My Command 2
Open Windows -> MDIWindow1
......................... MDIWindow2
......................... etc.

where the submenu to "Open Windows" is automatically updated. It would be really nifty if I could have the right arrow in the Openw Windows menu item be a rotated version of your tab implementation. I’ve already got the "My Command #" menu entries in place using CExtPopupMenuWnd (and some trial and error).

I imagine there’s a simple way to do this using your CExtTabMdiWnd, rather than loading up the menu programmatically each time. Could you please give me a detailed example of how to generate the popup submenu of MDI windows and how to track which one MDI document the user selects?

Many thanks
Lynn

You can find information about how to construct menu items at run time in the article: Constructing Menus Dynamically at Run Time. You can find how to enumerate MDI windows in the CExtPopupMenuWnd::UpdateMdiWindowsMenu method. This method constructs the list of MDI windows that you can see in all Prof-UIS MDI samples. The CExtMdiWindowsListDlg::_FillMDIWindowList method may also be helpful.

You can use the WM_MDIGETACTIVE message to determine which mdi window is active. The application sends this message to the MDI client window to retrieve a handle to the active MDI child window.

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