Re: Menu Not Available from Keyboard
From: Frank Hickman [MVP] (fhickman_NOSP_at_M_noblesoft.com)
Date: 01/01/05
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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 03:32:42 -0500
Check out articles #Q84129 and #Q100770 from MSDN and see if one of those
helps.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q84129
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q100770
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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, this is one of hte problems with dialog-based apps. There is also an
> MSDN article on
> how to use keyboard menu shortcuts, but I can't find it in the latest MSDN
> (while they
> still retain Win16 articles, many of the useful other articles seem to get
> purged. There
> is a trick you have to do to make the shortcut keys work. But I spent a
> fair amount of
> time doing MSDN searches and couldn't locate it. And I know I've seen it
> there.
> joe
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:01:54 -0800, "Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>
> wrote:
>
>>UPDATE_COMMAND_UI stuff doesn't work well for menus in a dialog. I have
>>this problem with context (right click) menus and I've fixed it by
>>implementing a handler for:
>>
>>ON_WM_INITMENUPOPUP()
>>
>>That looks like this:
>>
>>void CMyDialog::OnInitMenuPopup(CMenu* pMenu, UINT nIndex, BOOL bSysMenu)
>>{
>> if (bSysMenu)
>> return; // don't support system menu
>>
>> ASSERT(pMenu != NULL);
>>
>> // check the enabled state of various menu items
>> CCmdUI state;
>> state.m_pMenu = pMenu;
>> ASSERT(state.m_pOther == NULL);
>> ASSERT(state.m_pParentMenu == NULL);
>> state.m_pParentMenu = pMenu; // parent == child for tracking popup
>> state.m_nIndexMax = pMenu->GetMenuItemCount();
>> for (state.m_nIndex = 0; state.m_nIndex < state.m_nIndexMax;
>>state.m_nIndex++) {
>> state.m_nID = pMenu->GetMenuItemID(state.m_nIndex);
>> if (state.m_nID == 0)
>> continue; // menu separator or invalid cmd - ignore it
>> ASSERT(state.m_pOther == NULL);
>> ASSERT(state.m_pMenu != NULL);
>> state.m_pSubMenu = NULL;
>> state.DoUpdate(this, false);
>> }
>>}
>>
>>This pumps the messages to the correct handlers right before the menu is
>>popped up. I assume something like this would work for other kinds of
>>menus
>>in a dialog rather than just context menus.
>>
>>Tom
>>
>>"Frank Hickman [MVP]" <fhickman_NOSP@M_noblesoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:ltLAd.56$Km.47@fe04.lga...
>>> This is probably due to the handlers not being in available when your
>>> other windows have the focus. You can do a few things to work around
>>> this...write handlers for all the dialogs which call common code, write
>>> UPDATE_COMMAND_UI handlers for the functions that keep them enabled but
>>> I
>>> think they would still need some kind of link to the command code, or
>>> move
>>> all the command code to the main frame window in which case the
>>> functionality would always be available so you would probably need
>>> UPDATE_COMMAND_UI handlers to disable functionality that is not
>>> available.
>>> For instance, you would not want the save functionality if no document
>>> was
>>> open.
>>>
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>>> "Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
>>> news:u6Ts8ng7EHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>>I have a modeless dialog box (contained in some dockable windows in an
>>>>MDI
>>>> app).
>>>>
>>>> Mostly, it's working okay but when a control in the dialog box has the
>>>> focus, the main window menu is unavailable by keyboard (Alt+F, etc.
>>>> have
>>>> no
>>>> effect).
>>>>
>>>> I've modelled my code after some other applications and notice the
>>>> menus
>>>> in
>>>> these applications work even when the dialogs have the focus. Does
>>>> anyone
>>>> have any suggestions on where I'd look to determine how to keep my
>>>> menus
>>>> working?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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>>>> SoftCircuits
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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