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The GetMenuState function retrieves the menu flags associated with the specified menu item. If the menu item opens a submenu, this function also returns the number of items in the submenu.

The GetMenuState function has been superseded by the GetMenuItemInfo function. You can still use GetMenuState, however, if you do not need any of the extended features of GetMenuItemInfo.

UINT GetMenuState(

Parameters

hMenu

Identifies the menu that contains the menu item whose flags are to be retrieved.

uId

Specifies the menu item for which the menu flags are to be retrieved, as determined by the uFlags parameter.

uFlags

Specifies how the uId parameter is interpreted. This parameter can be one of the following values:

Value	Description
MF_BYCOMMAND	Indicates that the uId parameter gives the identifier of the menu item. The MF_BYCOMMAND flag is the default if neither the MF_BYCOMMAND nor MF_BYPOSITION flag is specified.
MF_BYPOSITION	Indicates that the uId parameter gives the zero-based relative position of the menu item.

Return Values

If the specified item does not exist, the return value is 0xFFFFFFFF.

If the menu item opens a submenu, the low-order byte of the return value contains the menu flags associated with the item, and the high-order byte contains the number of items in the submenu opened by the item.

Otherwise, the return value is a mask (Boolean OR) of the menu flags. Following are the menu flags associated with the menu item.

See Also

GetMenu, GetMenuItemCount, GetMenuItemID, GetMenuItemInfo

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