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Chapter 3 - Menu Manager / Menu Manager Reference

Menu Manager Routines / Getting a Handle to a Menu Record

GetMenuHandle

You can use the GetMenuHandle function to get a handle to the menu record of any of your application's menus other than its Help menu. (Use the HMGetHelpMenuHandle function to get a handle to the menu record of your application's Help menu.) The GetMenuHandle function is also available as the GetMHandle function.

FUNCTION GetMenuHandle (menuID: Integer): MenuHandle; 

menuID

The menu ID of the menu. (Note that this is not the resource ID,
although you often assign the menu ID so that it matches the resource ID.) You assign a menu ID in the 'MENU' resource of a menu. If you
do not define your menus in 'MENU' resources, you can assign a menu
ID using NewMenu.

DESCRIPTION

The GetMenuHandle function returns a handle to the menu record of the menu having the specified menu ID. If the menu is in the current menu list, GetMenuHandle returns a handle to the menu record of the menu as its function result. Otherwise, GetMenuHandle returns NIL as its function result.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

To get a handle to a menu record of a pop-up menu that you create using the pop-up control definition function, dereference the cntrlData field of the pop-up menu's control record instead of using GetMenuHandle.