Creating a Class Menu

The following example shows how to create a class menu for an application, create a window that uses the class menu, and process menu commands in the window procedure.

Following is the relevant portion of the application's header file:

// Menu-template resource identifier 
 
#define IDM_MYMENURESOURCE   3

Following are the relevant portions of the application itself:

HINSTANCE hinst; 
 
int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hinstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) 
{ 
    MSG msg;        // message 
    WNDCLASS wc;    // windowclass data 
    HWND hwnd;      // handle to the main window 
 
    // Create the window class for the main window. Specify 
    // the identifier of the menu-template resource as the 
    // lpszMenuName member of the WNDCLASS structure to create 
    // the class menu. 
 
    wc.style = 0; 
    wc.lpfnWndProc = (WNDPROC) MainWndProc; 
    wc.cbClsExtra = 0; 
    wc.cbWndExtra = 0; 
    wc.hInstance = hinstance; 
    wc.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); 
    wc.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); 
    wc.hbrBackground = GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH); 
    wc.lpszMenuName =  MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDM_MYMENURESOURCE); 
    wc.lpszClassName = "MainWClass"; 
 
    if (!RegisterClass(&wc)) 
        return FALSE; 
 
    hinst = hinstance; 
 
    // Create the main window. Set the hmenu parameter to NULL so 
    // that the system uses the class menu for the window. 
 
    hwnd = CreateWindow("MainWClass", "Sample Application", 
        WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, 
        CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, NULL, hinstance, 
        NULL); 
 
    if (hwnd == NULL) 
        return FALSE; 
 
    // Make the window visible and send a WM_PAINT message to the 
    // window procedure. 
 
    ShowWindow(hwnd, nCmdShow); 
    UpdateWindow(hwnd); 
 
    // Start the main message loop. 
 
    while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) 
    { 
        TranslateMessage(&msg); 
        DispatchMessage(&msg); 
    } 
    return msg.wParam; 
        UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(hPrevInstance); 
} 
 
 
LRESULT APIENTRY MainWndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) 
{ 
 
    switch (uMsg) 
    { 
        // Process other window messages. 
 
        case WM_COMMAND: 
 
            // Test for the identifier of a command item. 
 
            switch(LOWORD(wParam)) 
            { 
                case IDM_FI_OPEN: 
                    DoFileOpen();   // application-defined 
                    break; 
 
                case IDM_FI_CLOSE: 
                    DoFileClose();  // application-defined 
                    break; 
                // Process other menu commands. 
 
                default: 
                    break; 
 
            } 
            return 0; 
 
        // Process other window messages. 
 
        default: 
            return DefWindowProc(hwnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam); 
    } 
    return NULL; 
}