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How to customize CMFCMenuBar in an MFC application

Is there a way to create dynamic menu items in the menu bar of an MFC applications created with visual studio 2008 style with menus not ribbon, I have plugins that add their menus dynamically how can I add them to that menu??? I see 

//this is the menubar that i want to update
CMFCMenuBar       m_wndMenuBar;
Solution

  • At first you have to create a new submenu. It can be filled by hand or loaded from resources. Then create a new menu button and attach submenu to it. After that update the menu bar. That's it. 

    CMenu menu;

if(menu.LoadMenu(IDR_MY_MENU))
{
    m_wndMenuBar.InsertButton(CMFCToolBarMenuButton(0, menu, -1, _T("&MyMenu")), -1);

    m_wndMenuBar.AdjustLayout();
    m_wndMenuBar.AdjustSizeImmediate();
}

    P.S. menu may be local because CMFCToolBarMenuButton constructor copy content from it.