Due to a restriction in the Win32 APIs, submenu arrows are always drawn, and always drawn enabled in owner drawn menus. Learn about a workaround for this situation.
Owner Drawing the Submenu Arrow
Published 12/19/2006
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Dynamic Items
Published 02/20/2003
Sample code that shows you how to dynamically add to and handle items on a menu. (The article was updated.)
Implementing Tooltips for Menus
Published 04/27/2000
Illustrates how to implement tooltips for menus by overriding some key CMainFrame functions
Merging Two Menus
Published 03/20/1999
Merging Two Menus
MRU list in a submenu: the MFC bug and how to correct it
Published 01/18/1999
an explanation about the MFC bug that prevents the MRU items to appear in a submenu and the fix.
Using MRU on submenu
Published 11/09/1998
Using MRU on submenu
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