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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Published 09/08/2003
The bare bones necessary to make wholly owner drawn menus, including the TOP MENU LINE. Once this is understood, one can proceed to write all kinds of classes to encompass the menu and make it look as fancy as one wants. (The article and source code were updated.)
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