About menu item

[Micoman]

Hi I've been using autoit for 3 weeks and tried to avoid asking in the forum since lot of my question has been answered using search but lately I'm having a problem with my program so here it is.

I am having a problem making a recent file menu my question is

Is it possible to change or set the text of GUICtrlCreateMenuitem?

thanks in advance.

[Kogmedia]

Hi I've been using autoit for 3 weeks and tried to avoid asking in the forum since lot of my question has been answered using search but lately I'm having a problem with my program so here it is.

I am having a problem making a recent file menu my question is

Is it possible to change or set the text of GUICtrlCreateMenuitem?

thanks in advance.

$filemenu = GUICtrlCreateMenu ("Menu Name Here")

[November]

Hi I've been using autoit for 3 weeks and tried to avoid asking in the forum since lot of my question has been answered using search but lately I'm having a problem with my program so here it is.

I am having a problem making a recent file menu my question is

Is it possible to change or set the text of GUICtrlCreateMenuitem?

thanks in advance.

Hi there

Maybe if you use GUICtrlSetData to change the title

Cheers

[Zedna]

Also GUICtrlDelete() may help.

[Micoman]

Thanks for your fast reply

@ Zedna - I think guictrlsetdata doesn't work for guictrlmenuitem but the guictrldelete does but my other problem is when I e replace the item the new menu item doesn't work.

Thanks anyway have to search some example again

[PaulIA]

Hi I've been using autoit for 3 weeks and tried to avoid asking in the forum since lot of my question has been answered using search but lately I'm having a problem with my program so here it is.

I am having a problem making a recent file menu my question is

Is it possible to change or set the text of GUICtrlCreateMenuitem?

thanks in advance.

Welcome to the forum. Here is an example of how to change the text of a menu item using Auto3Lib:

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#include <A3LMenu.au3>

Global $hGUI, $hFile, $hHelp
Global Enum $idNew=1000, $idOpen , $idSave, $idRecent, $idExit, $idAbout

$hGUI = GUICreate("Menu Test", 400, 300)

; Create File menu
$hFile = _Menu_CreateMenu()
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "&New"    , $idNew   )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "&Open"   , $idOpen  )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "&Save"   , $idSave  )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, ""        , 0        )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "(Recent)", $idRecent)
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, ""        , 0        )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "E&xit"   , $idExit  )

; Create Help menu
$hHelp = _Menu_CreateMenu()
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hHelp, "&About", $idAbout)

; Create Main menu
$hMain = _Menu_CreateMenu()
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hMain, "&File", 0, $hFile)
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hMain, "&Help", 0, $hHelp)

; Set the window menu
_Menu_SetMenu($hGUI, $hMain)

GUISetState()

; Register command handler and wait for exit
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "WM_COMMAND")
do
until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

; Handle menu commands
Func WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam)
  Switch _Lib_LoWord($iwParam)
    case $idNew
      _Lib_ShowMsg("New"  )
      _Menu_SetItemText($hFile, 4, "File 123")
    case $idOpen
      _Lib_ShowMsg("Open" )
      _Menu_SetItemText($hFile, 4, "File 456")
    case $idSave
      _Lib_ShowMsg("Save" )
    case $idRecent
      _Lib_ShowMsg(_Menu_GetItemText($hFile, 4))
    case $idExit
      Exit
    case $idAbout
      _Lib_ShowMsg("About")
  EndSwitch
  Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc

[Gif]

Thanks for your fast reply

@ Zedna - I think guictrlsetdata doesn't work for guictrlmenuitem but the guictrldelete does but my other problem is when I e replace the item the new menu item doesn't work.

Thanks anyway have to search some example again

you might have to create a Case again, if you want you can show us some example of your script , in order to help you

Tried to avoid asking in the forum

[Gif]

Welcome to the forum. Here is an example of how to change the text of a menu item using Auto3Lib:

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#include <A3LMenu.au3>

Global $hGUI, $hFile, $hHelp
Global Enum $idNew=1000, $idOpen , $idSave, $idRecent, $idExit, $idAbout

$hGUI = GUICreate("Menu Test", 400, 300)

; Create File menu
$hFile = _Menu_CreateMenu()
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "&New"    , $idNew   )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "&Open"   , $idOpen  )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "&Save"   , $idSave  )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, ""        , 0        )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "(Recent)", $idRecent)
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, ""        , 0        )
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hFile, "E&xit"   , $idExit  )

; Create Help menu
$hHelp = _Menu_CreateMenu()
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hHelp, "&About", $idAbout)

; Create Main menu
$hMain = _Menu_CreateMenu()
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hMain, "&File", 0, $hFile)
_Menu_AddMenuItem($hMain, "&Help", 0, $hHelp)

; Set the window menu
_Menu_SetMenu($hGUI, $hMain)

GUISetState()

; Register command handler and wait for exit
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "WM_COMMAND")
do
until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

; Handle menu commands
Func WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam)
  Switch _Lib_LoWord($iwParam)
    case $idNew
      _Lib_ShowMsg("New"  )
      _Menu_SetItemText($hFile, 4, "File 123")
    case $idOpen
      _Lib_ShowMsg("Open" )
      _Menu_SetItemText($hFile, 4, "File 456")
    case $idSave
      _Lib_ShowMsg("Save" )
    case $idRecent
      _Lib_ShowMsg(_Menu_GetItemText($hFile, 4))
    case $idExit
      Exit
    case $idAbout
      _Lib_ShowMsg("About")
  EndSwitch
  Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc

well Au3Lib seems to be the best solution, thanks for Au3Lib it helps a lot!!

Edited May 23, 2007 by c4nm7

[Micoman]

@ PaulIA - thanks a lot I'll give a try

@ c4nm7 - Thanks for the idea anyway many of question in learning autoit is already in this forum except for this one or maybe I miss something on my search