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From: dweinste@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: Menus in dialogs
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Date: 27 Apr 91 19:28:16 GMT
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In article <71984@microsoft.UUCP> roberth@microsoft.UUCP (Robert HESS) writes:
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#Kate Stout (kstout@medieval.East.Sun.COM) asks:
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#|  I would like to include menus in a dialog. Any thoughts or
#|  suggestions on how to go about this?
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#...Yes. Don't Do It!
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#Menus are *not* supported in dialogs (or child windows), while it is
#possible to install a menu in a dialog (but not child windows), there
#are a number of things that won't work right once you get it there.

SDK Reference Volume 2:

      dtMenuName[]   Specifies a null-terminated string that specifies
                     the name of the dialog box's menu. If this field
                     is NULL, the dialog-box window does not have a menu.

    (page 7-33)


Now this looks awfully "supported" to me (although I will agree with you
that the default Dialog Window Proc doesn't handle the Menu as fully as
I'd like). As for maintaining a consistent look/feel across various
Windows Apps, if it looks like a popup window, and it acts like a popup
window, the end-users don't care *how* I implement it....

--Dave


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