How To Dynamically Change Position of Menu Items on Top-Level Menu Bar (230201)

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1. Get the handle to the menu.
2. Create and initialize a MENUITEMINFO structure.
3. Copy the menu item info from the item to be changed into the new MENUITEMINFO structure.
4. Insert the new item so that it precedes the position specified.
5. Remove the original item.
6. Redraw the menu bar.

 
HMENU hMenu;
TCHAR szBuffer[40];
TCHAR buf[50];
MENUITEMINFO MInfo;
int OrigPosition, NewPosition ;

hMenu            = GetMenu(hWnd);
MInfo.cbSize     = sizeof(MENUITEMINFO);
OrigPosition     = 2;
NewPosition      = 4;

MInfo.fMask      = MIIM_DATA | MIIM_ID |MIIM_SUBMENU |MIIM_TYPE; 
MInfo.fType      = MFT_STRING;
MInfo.fState     = MFS_DEFAULT;
MInfo.dwTypeData = szBuffer;
MInfo.cch        = 40; //sizeof(Buffer);

if(GetMenuItemInfo(hMenu, OrigPosition, TRUE, &MInfo))
   {
   if(InsertMenuItem(hMenu, NewPosition, TRUE, &MInfo))  // Insert between 3 and 4
      {
      RemoveMenu(hMenu, OrigPosition, MF_BYPOSITION);
      DrawMenuBar(hWnd);
      }
   }