CFormView and system menu

[Piccinano]

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

[kingslee]

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

Hope this answers to ur query...

kings

[Piccinano]

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?

[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:

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

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.

[Piccinano]

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:

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

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.

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();

[kirants]

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

So, you need to add a

ON_WM_SYSCOMMAND()

to your message map implemented as:

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);
	}
}

Sorry about the confusion

[Piccinano]

Thanks.

Now it works.

[kirants]

You are welcome