Re: ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI

As Ajay suggests if you use an SDI or MDI app with a CFormView rather than
a dialog app you could use this mechanism very easily. I've used it for all
kinds of controls.

Most of the time I will, instead, create a function called SetControlState()
that gets called when something changes (like a checkbox is checked). In
that function I simply use EnableWindow() ShowWindow() or whateverWindow()
to set the controls the way I want them based on the state of the program.

The reason the ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI mechanism is useful for menus and
toolbar buttons is that the calls are made as the menu or toolbar is being
drawn. In a dialog you'll have to call OnInitMenuPopup() to get the
mechanism to work right (I.E., for a popup context menu).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9k665199(VS.80).aspx

Tom

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