Trying to add a menu bar to a dialog

[ForNow]

hi I am trying to add a MENU bar to my Dialog when I look at this link seems I should be able to DIALOG resource - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs[^] however after I add it

IDD_DIALOG21 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 790, 321
MENU IDR_MAINFRAME
STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "Dialog"
FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg", 400, 0, 0x1
BEGIN
CONTROL "",IDC_RICHEDIT21,"RichEdit20A",ES_MULTILINE | WS_BORDER | WS_TABSTOP,27,7,780,273
LTEXT "Static",IDC_STATIC15,7,7,20,273,WS_CLIPSIBLINGS
END

and open up the dialog in the resource editor it doesn't display I tried creating a new project "Dialog Based" and the menu (control to add it ) in the wizard was grayed out thanks

[Lost User]

I don't have a VS version that includes the resource editor, so I have to do things manually. However, I can confirm that dialog boxes work fine with menus.

[leon de boer]

Easy to do it manually .. inside WM_INITDIALOG assuming the dialog window handle is hWnd Try this

		HMENU hMenubar;
		HMENU hMenu;

		hMenubar = CreateMenu();
		hMenu = CreateMenu();

		AppendMenuW(hMenu, MF\_STRING, 10000, "&New");
		AppendMenuW(hMenu, MF\_STRING, 10001, "&Open");
		AppendMenuW(hMenu, MF\_SEPARATOR, 0, NULL);
		AppendMenuW(hMenu, MF\_STRING, WM\_QUIT, "&Quit");

		AppendMenuW(hMenubar, MF\_POPUP, (UINT\_PTR)hMenu, "&File");
		SetMenu(hWnd, hMenubar);

In vino veritas

[ForNow]

thanks

[ForNow]

ok maybe it only display them when you do a SHowWindow

[Victor Nijegorodov]

ForNow wrote:

after I add it

IDD_DIALOG21 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 790, 321
MENU IDR_MAINFRAME
...
END

and open up the dialog in the resource editor it doesn't display

Did you create the menu IDR_MAINFRAME itself?

[Lost User]

I thought you were talking about a modal dialog.

[ForNow]

IDR_MENU is defined in my resource file I basically took the menu for the MainFrame and wanted to use it for the Dialog Opening up The resource editor I am beginning to think when you view a dialog with menu it wont display it There is a only a way to view the menu by itself once I get my code going and do a ShowWindow for the Dialog i'll see if it displays the menu

IDR_MAINFRAME MENU
BEGIN
POPUP "&File"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "E&xit", ID_APP_EXIT
END
POPUP "&Edit"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "&Undo\tCtrl+Z", ID_EDIT_UNDO
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "Cu&t\tCtrl+X", ID_EDIT_CUT
MENUITEM "&Copy\tCtrl+C", ID_EDIT_COPY
MENUITEM "&Paste\tCtrl+V", ID_EDIT_PASTE
END
POPUP "&View"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "&Toolbar", ID_VIEW_TOOLBAR
MENUITEM "&Status Bar", ID_VIEW_STATUS_BAR
END
POPUP "&ProgDebug"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "Program Debug", ID_DEBUG
END
POPUP "&Asidlist"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "Address Space List", ID_ASID
END
POPUP "&Help"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "&About DBGR...", ID_APP_ABOUT
END
END