Disabling submenu in Win32

[lclarsen]

Hi, I'm trying to disable a submenu in win32. It's working ok, but is there an alternative to this:

HMENU showMenu = GetSubMenu(currentMenu,2);
EnableMenuItem(showMenu,4,MF_BYPOSITION | MF_GRAYED);

I don't like MF_BYPOSITION, because the code will break if we add new menu items to 'showMenu' later on. Why do sub-menus not have ID's, so that I could just call EnableMenuItem() directly...? Thanks! /lacla

[Lost User]

Why not use MF_BYCOMMAND against the id of the menuitem you want disabled?

[lclarsen]

As I indicated, submenus don't have id's as far as I can see. Otherwise I would have used the ID... It is a submenu (flyout) in the menu bar that I want to disable. /lacla

[Stuart Dootson]

I think the idiomatic way to do what you want is to grey out all the items on the sub-menu rather than to disable the sub-menu itself, basically because there's less cognitive dissonance for the user.

Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!

[Lost User]

Stuart Dootson wrote:

less cognitive dissonance for the user.

That sounds like something a real MVP would say ;)

[fkeujjpdc]

you can set the submenu normal then add showmenu ,at last you set the showmenu MF_GRAYED,do this the code should not break