How to Gray Selections in Menu [file menu for example]

[nbgoku]

how do i gray certain areas of a file menu, it seems EnableWindow() doest work with what i want, i want to gray certain selections in the Menu's when a certain selection is selected

i used Microsoft to build the menu

the Menu name is IDR_MENU1
inside the Menu is an option called Open (in the File menu), the ID of Open is ID_FILE_OPEN

anyone have any ideas or any tricks or shortcuts to graying Open? i dont want it grayed when the programs, i want it grayed when the user selects a different option from the File menu other then Open

 

[ronnyjljr]

Nb,

These are the functions that I wrote and use...

[blue]
void enableMenuItem(UINT ID)
{
     CMenu *Menu_Primary;
     Menu_Primary = GetMenu();
     Menu_Primary->EnableMenuItem(ID,MF_ENABLED);
}
void disableMenuItem(UINT ID)
{
     CMenu *Menu_Primary;
     Menu_Primary = GetMenu();
     Menu_Primary->EnableMenuItem(ID,MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_DISABLED | MF_GRAYED);
}
[/blue]
[green]//The UINT ID is the actual resource id of the button, in your case, ID_FILE_OPEN[/green]

[purple]disableMenuItem(ID_FILE_OPEN);[/purple]
[purple]enableMenuItem(ID_FILE_OPEN);[/purple]

[green]//Remember that these functions must be in the class that has the menu attached to it already, or else the GetMenu won't return anything[/green]

Hope that helps!
~Ron

cout << "If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken";

 

[nbgoku]

oh sweet!
thanks!