Add intelligent menus

The following is a tutorial on how to add intelligent menus to your application. This tutorial assumes that you have already created an application that uses Office style toolbars and menus. For a tutorial on how to create an application that uses Office style toolbars and menus, click here.

Create a simple MDI application using the MFC AppWizard:

1. Add array of Ids that seem not very important for user.

    static UINT uHideCmds[] =
    {
        ID_FILE_PRINT, ID_FILE_PRINT_PREVIEW, ID_WINDOW_CASCADE
    };
   

2. Add to the CMainFrame::OnCreate Intelligent menu initialization:

    // Hide array of commands
    pCommandBars->HideCommands(uHideCmds, _countof(uHideCmds));
   
   // Set "Always Show Full Menus" option to the FALSE
   XTP_COMMANDBARS_OPTIONS* pOptions = pCommandBars->
     GetCommandBarsOptions();
   pOptions->bAlwaysShowFullMenus = FALSE;
   

3. Add the OnClose message handler to CMainFrame and add SaveCommandBars(_T("CommandBars")); before the call to the base class. This will save the user's used commands.

   int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
   {
       ...
   
           // Load the previous state for toolbars and menus.
           LoadCommandBars(_T("CommandBars"));
   
       return 0;
   }
   

4. Add the OnClose message handler to CMainFrame and add SaveCommandBars(_T("CommandBars")); before the call to the base class. This will save the user's used commands.

   void CMainFrame::OnClose()
   {
       // Save the current state for toolbars and menus.
       SaveCommandBars(_T("CommandBars"));
       CMDIFrameWnd::OnClose();
   }