Disabling::Popup Menu

[ideru]

IDR_MYMENU MENU
BEGIN
    POPUP "&File"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "E&xit", ID_FILE_EXIT
    END

    POPUP "&Stuff"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&Go", ID_STUFF_GO
        MENUITEM "G&o somewhere else", 0, GRAYED
    END
END

I have the menu above. I can disable each item in the popup based on the ID but I can't grayout the the main popup area. In this case the &File.
Is their a way to disable it, without knowing its ID?

[shekar_raja]

Does this help??
Unchecking a popup menu

[ideru]

@shekar: already check that, but not what Im looking for.

[VictorN]

Something like:

CMenu* pMenu = AfxGetMainWnd()->GetMenu();
if(pMenu != NULL)
   pMenu->EnableMenuItem(1, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_GRAYED); // disable second (with index '1') menu

[Igor Vartanov]

And please don't miss this point:
From MSDN

When you change a window menu, the menu bar is not immediately updated. To force the update, call DrawMenuBar.

[VictorN]

Good point, Igor!
(Although in my small and fast test the menu item was disabled without DrawMenuBar call, it is still required if some of menus/submenus was removed or added or the whole menu bar).