I'm looking for FireFly functions to work with menus. Are there any or do I need to do this using PB code?
What I need to do is to checkmark a menu item in response to the user selecting it.
I am able to create the menu in FF using the Menu editor and and I am able to recognize that the menu item has been selected in FRMMAIN_WM_COMMAND using the menu's ID. But I don't know how to work with the menu item now. How do I checkmark it or disable it or do anything else with it now?
TIA
I just found out how to do this in PB using Menu Set State.
It would be great if this was just added to FF for consistency sake. Something like:
FF_Menu_SetCheck(wID, nCheckState)
and of course, its compliment:
FF_Menu_GetCheck(wID)
But being a newbie, I'm sure there's some reason that this has not been incorporated that I just am not aware of.
Quote from: Art ArayaBut being a newbie, I'm sure there's some reason that this has not been incorporated that I just am not aware of.
Nope, no reason, just haven't added any menu manipulation functions (yet). Likewise for the toolbar.
:)
I'm working with the Toolbar now and was thinking the same thing! Hope you get around to them one day.
:D
>" just found out how to do this in PB using Menu Set State. "
Art Araya,
Could you post one or two lines of your code for checking the menu item within FF? I can get menues to work OK but I can't get them to check themselves.
THANKS,
John
Hi John,
I am not entirely clear on what you are having problems with. What do you mean when you say that you can't get the menus to check themselves?
Art
Art, I've used the Menu Editor to create an menu. I capture the FRMMAIN_WM_COMMAND (my main form) messages and can bring up an About dialog. No problem on responding to menus. But now I want to mark a series of menu options with a check mark.
I can set the marks in the menu editor. But I can't turn them on/off from within the FRMMAIN_WM_COMMAND function. In fact, GetMenuState() keeps returning -1 which means it can't even find the menu.
I've tried many combinations of CheckMenuItem() and Menu Set State() and GetMenu() (that returns a handle to a menu). I just don't seem to be able to turn the little checks on and off at will.
I'm missing something basic. Like I must be using an invalid handle to a menu, or a handle to the wrong menu/submenu, an invalid identifier to the menu item, or an invalid set of flags.
John Dunbar
Hi John,
As a newbie myself, I can't answer all of your questions. All I can tell you is that I don't actually try to set the checkmarks ON/OFF in WM_COMMAND itself. I call a routine and do it in there.
For example, if the user has selected the Include Subfolders option menu in my app, I'll capture that in WM_COMMAND and call a routine ChangeIncludeSubFolderOption() where I do all of the toggling of checkmarks and related code.
HTH
Art
That worked like a charm.
MUCHO THANKS!!
I don't know why I didn't think of that. I normally keep my stuff out of the FF window handlers.
Here's my routine for a menu item toggler and it works. Rereading it I should have used an ELSEIF in the IF statement to be cleaner but I was debugging and left it in.
John
in FRMMAIN_WM_COMMAND()
Select Case wID
Case IDC_FRMMAIN_mnuSoundOnGamewithMistakes
Call ToggleMenuItem(HWND_FRMMAIN,IDC_FRMMAIN_mnuSoundOnGamewithMistakes)
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outside in a module...
Function ToggleMenuItem(hWndOfMainForm As Dword,IDCOfMenuItem As Dword) As Long
'pass in HWND_FRMMAIN (main form) and menu item identifier found in Resource file, i.e. IDC_FRMMAIN_MNUSOUNDON
Local nResult&
'returns -1 when menu does not exist, else menu flags
nResult = GetMenuState(GetMenu(hWndOfMainForm), IDCOfMenuItem, %MF_CHECKED)
If nResult = -1 Then
ToggleMenuItem = 0
Exit Function
End If
If nResult = 0 Then
Call CheckMenuItem GetMenu(hWndOfMainForm), IDCOfMenuItem, %MF_CHECKED
Else 'decimal 8
Call CheckMenuItem GetMenu(hWndOfMainForm), IDCOfMenuItem, %MF_UNCHECKED
End If
ToggleMenuItem = 1
End Function