MENUEX Resource

This resource-definition statement is an extension of the MENU resource-definition statement that additionally supports the following:

υHelp identifiers on menus.
υIdentifiers on menus.
υUse of the MFT_* type flags and MFS_* state flags. For more information about these flags, see the MENUITEMINFO structure.

Syntax

menuID MENUEX { [{[MENUITEM itemText [, [id] [, [type] [, state]]]] | [POPUP itemText [, [id] [, [type] [, [state] [, helpID]]]] { popupBody }

} ...] }

Parameters

MENUITEM statement

Defines a menu item. This statement consists of the following parameters:

Value	Description
itemText	String containing the text for the menu item. For more information, see MENUITEM.
id	Numeric expression indicating the identifier of the menu item.
type	Numeric expression indicating the type of the menu item To use the predefined MFT_* type values, include the following statement in your .rc file:
	`#include "Winuser.h"`
state	A numeric expression indicating the state of the menu item To use the predefined MFS_* state values, include the following statement in your .rc file:
	`#include "Winuser.h"`

POPUP statement

Defines a menu item that has a submenu associated with it. This statement consists of the same parameters as MENUITEM statement, as well as the following parameter:

Value	Description
helpID	Numeric expression indicating the identifier of the menu that is used during WM_HELP processing.

popupBody

Contains any combination of the MENUITEM and POPUP statements.

Remarks

The following valid operations can be contained in any of the numeric expressions in the statements of MENUEX:

Add (‘+’)
Subtract (‘-’)
Unary minus (‘-’)
Unary NOT (‘~’)
AND (‘&’)
OR (‘|’)

See Also

MENU, MENUITEM, POPUP, ACCELERATORS, CHARACTERISTICS, DIALOG, LANGUAGE, RCDATA, STRINGTABLE, VERSION