Microsoft KB Archive/139469

= HOWTO: How to Use TrackPopupMenu and Update UI Handlers =

Article ID: 139469

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Foundation Class Library 4.2, when used with:  Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 Professional Edition

 Microsoft Visual C++ 1.51

 Microsoft Visual C++ 1.52 Professional Edition

 Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 Professional Edition</li></ul>

 Microsoft Visual C++ 2.1</li></ul>

 Microsoft Visual C++ 2.2</li></ul>

 Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 Standard Edition</li></ul>

 Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 Subscription</li></ul> </li></ul>

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This article was previously published under Q139469

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SUMMARY
Floating popup menus are generally displayed in response to right-mouse click messages. The CMenu::TrackPopupMenu function is used to display these menus. For the MFC Update UI mechanism to work correctly with these menus, the owner of these menus should be a class derived from CFrameWnd.

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MORE INFORMATION
Menu items in an MFC application are updated in response to the WM_INITMENUPOPUP message. The MFC CFrameWnd::OnInitMenuPopup function has special code for handling the Update UI mechanism.

The code in CFrameWnd::OnInitMenuPopup iterates through the menu items and checks for the Update UI and Command handlers in the command route, for each item. Depending on the result of this search, it updates the state of the menu item.

The WM_INITMENUPOPUP message is sent only to the owner of the menu. Hence for the menus to be updated correctly, you need to make a CFrameWnd-derived class the owner of the floating popup menu.

The Update UI mechanism doesn't work for a dialog-based application because the code that calls the UI handlers is not found in a CDialog-derived class.

The following sample code displays the File popup menu in the CView-derived class (CMyView) in response to the WM_RBUTTONUP message. Note that the main frame window pointer is used in the call to the CMenu::TrackPopupMenu function, so the Update UI mechanism will work correctly.

Sample Code
void CMyView::OnRButtonUp(UINT nFlags, CPoint point) {   // Calling the base class function. CView::OnRButtonUp(nFlags, point);

// Get the top level menu from the main application window. CWnd* pMainWindow = AfxGetMainWnd; CMenu* pTopLevelMenu = pMainWindow->GetMenu;

// Get the File popup menu from the top level menu. CMenu *pFileMenu = pTopLevelMenu->GetSubMenu(0);

// Convert the mouse location to screen coordinates before passing // it to the TrackPopupMenu function. ClientToScreen(&point);

// Display the File popup menu as a floating popup menu in the // client area of the main application window. pFileMenu->TrackPopupMenu(TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_LEFTBUTTON,       point.x,        point.y,        pMainWindow);    // owner is the main application window }

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