Legacy Document
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Menu Manager Routines
The Menu Manager includes routines for creating menus, changing the characteristics of menu items, and handling user choice of menu commands. The Menu Manager also provides routines for adding items to and deleting items from menus, counting the number of items in a menu, getting a handle to a menu's menu record, disposing of menus, calculating the dimensions of a menu, highlighting the menu bar, and managing entries in your application's menu color information table.Some Menu Manager routines can be accessed using more than one spelling of the routine's name, depending on the interface files supported by your development environment. For example,
GetMenuHandleis also available asGetMHandle.
Table 3-8 provides a mapping between the previous name of a routine and its new equivalent name.Table 3-8 Table 3-8 Mapping between new and previous names of Menu Manager routines
Subtopics
- Initializing the Menu Manager
- Creating Menus
- Adding Menus to and Removing Menus From the Current Menu List
- Getting a Menu Bar Description From an 'MBAR' Resource
- Getting and Setting the Menu Bar
- Drawing the Menu Bar
- Responding to the User's Choice of a Menu Command
- Getting a Handle to a Menu Record
- Adding and Deleting Menu Items
- Getting and Setting the Appearance of Menu Items
- Disposing of Menus
- Counting the Items in a Menu
- Highlighting the Menu Bar
- Recalculating Menu Dimensions
- Managing Entries in the Menu Color Information Table