Dynamic popup menu for tray icon

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  1. tasos

    tasos New Member

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    Hello to everyone,

    This is my first post ever in this forum. The problem I came across is about a popup menu in Visual C++.

    The application creates a tray icon. Now, I create a menu (baseMenu) with the resource editor of Visual Studio (2008). Then, baseMenu is successfully loaded and I am able to see it when I click to the tray icon. So far so good...

    However, I want the application to be able to add new popup menus to baseMenu during runtime. Until now, I can only add new items (basePopupMenus) with AppendMenu(). But, I have a problem populating basePopupMenus with new items before adding them to baseMenu.

    Here is the code I use so far:
    Code:
    baseMenu.LoadMenu(IDR_BASE_MENU);
    
        // Open file to read new items from.
        CFile m_fileItems;
    
        if (m_fileItems.Open(_T("items.it"), CFile::modeRead))
        {
            // Open archive.
            CArchive archive(&m_fileItems, CArchive::load);
            CString strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem;
        
            // If file is not empty.
            if (m_fileItems.GetLength() != 0)
            {
                do
                {            
                    // Load item.
                    archive >> strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem;
    
                    // Try to find substring "+---".
                    // Item is basePopupMenu.
                    if (strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem.Find(_T("+---")) == -1) 
                    {
                        // Create new popup menu.
                        basePopupMenu.CreatePopupMenu();  
                        baseMenu.GetSubMenu(0)->AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED | MF_POPUP, (UINT)&basePopupMenu.m_hMenu, strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem);
                    }
                    else // Item is application.
                    {    
                        strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem.Remove('-'); // Removing dashes (-)
                        strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem.Remove('+'); // and plus sign (+).
                            
                        basePopupMenuItem.CreatePopupMenu();
                        basePopupMenu.AppendMenu(MF_ENABLED | MF_POPUP,     (UINT)&m_NewMenu.m_hMenu, strLoadedBasePopupMenuItem);
                    }
                }
                while (archive.IsBufferEmpty()==0);
            }
        
            // Close archive and file.
            archive.Close();
            m_fileItems.Close();
    
    I don't know what I am doing wrong here.:crazy: Can anyone, please, tell me what to do?


    Thanks a lot!

    P.S.: Ask me if there is anything I haven't explained enough.
     
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  2. tasos

    tasos New Member

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    Sorry if I was a little confusing with my post, above. Allow me to rephrase my problem.

    I have a tray icon and attached a menu to it. What I want is every item in this menu to have a right pointing arrow next to it so as, when I lay the mouse on it, a new menu to appear.
     
  3. shabbir

    shabbir Administrator Staff Member

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    Right arrow comes when you have sub menu under that menu item.
     

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