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From: bturner@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: changing menu bar items
Message-ID: <106580081@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 5 Feb 90 17:35:27 GMT
References: <34071@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> It is MUCH easier to swap menus. Just call SetMenu(hWnd, hMenu); 
> hMenu MUST have been returned from CreateMenu, LoadMenu or
> LoadMenuIndirect.

WARNING -- if you do this, when the window is destroyed the current
menu is also destroyed.  I.e, if you have called CreateMenu for three
different menus, and set one of them as the main menu, that one will
be automagically destroyed but the other two will continue to take up
memory.

Also remember that if you register a menu with the window, it will
be automatically created, but if you set a different menu it will not
be automatically destroyed.

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Interface Technology Operation