Microsoft Windows 2000 API SuperBible

Menus in MDI Applications

The MDI frame window menu should include a window pop-up menu item. This pop-up menu item is typically defined just before the Help pop-up menu item and contains the submenu items Tile, Cascade, Arrange Icons, and Close All Child Windows. These are implemented using the window messages defined later in this chapter. In addition, the MDI client window will add the names of newly created MDI child windows to the bottom of the pop-up menu item you specify when creating the MDI client window.

Figure 27.2 shows a simple MDI application. There are currently four MDI child windows open, one of which has been minimized to the bottom of the MDI client window. Notice the Window menu. The MDI client window has dynamically placed ...