CFormView and system menu

How to add an item (i.e. About...) in the system menu in a CFormView derived application?
Thanks.

Goto Resource view ..-.
select Menu->IDR-Mainframe...
there u can add your menu item ...

Hope this answers to ur query...

kings

With this code i can add menu item in the system menu

CMenu* pMenu = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);
pMenu->AppendMenu ( MF_SEPARATOR, 50, "");
pMenu->AppendMenu ( MF_STRING, 50, "About...");


.... but how handle the message and show the "About.." dialog?

Read MSDN on AppendMenu.
The second parameter is the menu item command ID. In your case 50.
So, if you pass X as the command ID in AppendMenu, simply add a ON_COMMAND handler like below:

Code:

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ON_COMMAND(X,OnX)
void CYourClass::OnX()
{
}

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BTW, you do not need to pass 50 for seperator, second parameter is ignored for seperators, so to avoid confusion, why not simply pass 0.

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Originally Posted by kirants

Read MSDN on AppendMenu.
The second parameter is the menu item command ID. In your case 50.
So, if you pass X as the command ID in AppendMenu, simply add a ON_COMMAND handler like below:

Code:

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ON_COMMAND(X,OnX)
void CYourClass::OnX()
{
}

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BTW, you do not need to pass 50 for seperator, second parameter is ignored for seperators, so to avoid confusion, why not simply pass 0.

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Thanks for reply.

I add

pMenu->AppendMenu ( MF_SEPARATOR);
pMenu->AppendMenu ( MF_STRING, ID_ABOUTBOX, "Information...");

in CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)

Then add

ON_COMMAND(ID_ABOUTBOX,OnClickedButtonAbout)

in MESSAGE_MAP of CMainView

but it doesn't show the About dialog with

CAboutDlg aboutDlg;
aboutDlg.DoModal();

oops..sorry about that.. menu items in system menu generare WM_SYS_COMMAND and not WM_COMMAND.

So, you need to add a

Code:

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ON_WM_SYSCOMMAND()

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to your message map implemented as:

Code:

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void CMainFrame::OnSysCommand(UINT nID, LPARAM lParam)
{
        // TODO: Add your command handler code here
        if(ID_APP_ABOUT == nID)
        {
                CAboutDlg oDlg;
                oDlg.DoModal();
        }
        else
        {
                CFrameWnd::OnSysCommand(nID,lParam);
        }
}

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Sorry about the confusion :(

Thanks.

Now it works.

You are welcome :wave: