Re: Trouble while adding icons to a menu

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:47:17 -0400
Message-ID:
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"JoDeGr8" <johnemmatty@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184150735.736994.132570@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com

HBITMAP hBitmap=(HBITMAP)LoadImage(NULL,"C:\\Test.bmp",IMAGE_BITMAP,
0,0,LR_LOADFROMFILE);

cBitmap.Attach(hBitmap);

BOOL bSucces=mn.SetMenuItemBitmaps(i,
MF_BYPOSITION,&cBitmap,&cBitmap);


Drop the ampersands.

cBitmap.DeleteObject();


Don't do that. The menu does _not_ take a copy of the bitmap. It is your
responsibility to keep the bitmap alive while your menu is using it.

By the way, you don't need to keep loading the same bitmap over and over
in a loop. Load it once, set the same bitmap for all items that need it.
Again, you need to preserve the bitmap, probably in a member variable,
for as long as the menu is up.
--
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