Smartphone soft key menu without resource file?

Rick C · Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 12

I was trying to make a little C++ program that would create a soft key-based
menu (this is trivial, of course, in .Net, MS has decided in its infinite
wisdom not to support C++ in .Net CF) and it seems like SHCreateMenuBar will
return success but not do anything if you try to use an HMENU instead of a
resource from a resource file. The only info I've seen about this after a
web search was a post from 2004 saying that the documentation is lacking in
that it doesn't say this isn't supported. Is this still the case, even on
WM6?

Perhaps because I've got a slight Luddite streak I want to do some
development with the commandline tools instead of using Visual Studio per
se. The Windows Mobile 6 SDK add-on for Visual Studio doesnt' seem to have
a version of rc.exe--will the regular version work to create .res files?

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Christopher Fairbairn · Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 57

Hi,

"Rick C" wrote in message $YeIHA.1824@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I was trying to make a little C++ program that would create a soft
>key-based menu and it seems like SHCreateMenuBar will return success but
>not do
> anything if you try to use an HMENU instead of a resource from a resource
> file.

Take a look at the Channel 9 Windows Mobile developer wiki. In particular
the "Creating and Using menus on Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PCs" entry
available at
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/MobileDeveloper.Menu, it might
provide some background information that might get you started.

For backwards compatability reasons (i.e. maximum platform support) I
generally place a "dummy" menu resource with two soft key buttons in my
resource file. Then using techniques similiar to the ones discussed in the
wiki article I can replace the menu content (popup menus, labels, command
ids etc) at runtime after it's been created from the resource file.

Yes the desktop rc.exe should work fine from the command line for Windows CE
projects. The difference between the two environments is what include file
directories etc are used when compiling the *.rc source file.

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn

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