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.
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Dynamic Items
Sample code that shows you how to dynamically add to and handle items on a menu. (The article was updated.)
Implementing Tooltips for Menus
Illustrates how to implement tooltips for menus by overriding some key CMainFrame functions
Merging Two Menus
Merging Two Menus
MRU list in a submenu: the MFC bug and how to correct it
an explanation about the MFC bug that prevents the MRU items to appear in a submenu and the fix.
Using MRU on submenu
Using MRU on submenu
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