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Add intelligent menus

The following is a tutorial on how to add intelligent menus to your application. This tutorial assumes that you have already created an application that uses Office style toolbars and menus. For a tutorial on how to create an application that uses Office style toolbars and menus, click here.

Create a simple MDI application using the MFC AppWizard:

1. Add array of Ids that seem not very important for user.




 static UINT uHideCmds[] =

 {

     ID_FILE_PRINT, ID_FILE_PRINT_PREVIEW, ID_WINDOW_CASCADE

 };




2. Add to the CMainFrame::OnCreate Intelligent menu initialization:




 // Hide array of commands

 pCommandBars->HideCommands(uHideCmds, _countof(uHideCmds));

 

     // Set "Always Show Full Menus" option to the FALSE

     XTP_COMMANDBARS_OPTIONS* pOptions = pCommandBars->

       GetCommandBarsOptions();

     pOptions->bAlwaysShowFullMenus = FALSE;




3. Add the OnClose message handler to CMainFrame and add SaveCommandBars(_T("CommandBars")); before the call to the base class. This will save the user’s used commands.




     int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)

     {

         ...

 

             // Load the previous state for toolbars and menus.

             LoadCommandBars(_T("CommandBars"));

 

         return 0;

     }




4. Add the OnClose message handler to CMainFrame and add SaveCommandBars(_T("CommandBars")); before the call to the base class. This will save the user’s used commands.




     void CMainFrame::OnClose()

     {

         // Save the current state for toolbars and menus.

         SaveCommandBars(_T("CommandBars"));

         CMDIFrameWnd::OnClose();

     }