Turning the checkmark in a menu off

[Sean Scott]

I have a menu item with Checked turned on. I want to have the menu item be a toggle, which reverses the checkmark visibility each time the menu item is selected.

I found the FF_Menu_SetState function, but I can't figure out what idItem is. Is this the correct function to call to toggle a menu checkmark? If so, what do I pass in for the idItem parameter?

[Paul Squires]

Hi Sean,

The idItem is the "IDC_" control identifier for the menu item. You can get these values from the F4 popup dialog (Handles and Control IDs).

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   Local nState As Long
   
   nState = FF_Menu_GetState( HWND_FORM1_TOPMENU, IDC_FORM1_MNUPRINT )

   nState = IIF&( nState = %MFS_CHECKED, %MFS_UNCHECKED, %MFS_CHECKED )   
       
   FF_Menu_SetState hWndForm, HWND_FORM1_TOPMENU, IDC_FORM1_MNUPRINT, nState



[Sean Scott]

I get error 443: TO EXPECTED

Here is the code I ran:
   Local nState As Long
   nState = FF_Menu_GetState( HWND_FRMMAIN_TOPMENU, IDC_FRMMAIN_MNUTOGGLECALC )
   nState = IIF&( nState = %MFS_CHECKED, %MFS_UNCHECKED, %MFS_CHECKED )
   FF_Menu_SetState gHwndForm, HWND_FRMMAIN_TOPMENU, IDC_FRMMAIN_MNUTOGGLECALC, nState

The FF_Menu_SetState is causing the error.

What am I doing wrong?

[Sean Scott]

I figured it out, I didn't need to pass the HwndForm