Linking Menu Items

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hello everyone, I posted a message a couple weeks ago about writing menus. Now I would like to know how to link menu items to programs and windows like the open, save, save as windows and do stuff like select, delete, copy, paste (if anyone could tell me how to write the code for the select, copy, paste, delete stuff that would be great too!). My menu looks like this:
MENU
BEGIN

POPUP "&File"
BEGIN
    POPUP "&New"
    BEGIN 
    POPUP "&Record New Audio File"
    BEGIN
    MENUITEM "&Record New WAV File", IDM_FILENEWRECWAV
    MENUITEM "&Record New MP3 File", IDM_FILENEWRECMP3
    MENUITEM "&Record New MP2 File", IDM_FILENEWRECMP2
    END
    MENUITEM "&New Text File", IDM_FILENEWTXT
    MENUITEM "&New Microsoft Word Document", IDM_FILENEWDOC
    MENUITEM "&New Microsoft Excel Book", IDM_FILENEWXLS
    MENUITEM "&New Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation", IDM_FILENEWPPT
    END
    MENUITEM "&Add File To Library\tCtrl+O", IDM_FILEOPEN
MENUITEM "&Add Folder To Library", IDM_FOLDEROPEN
    MENUITEM "&Save Library\tCtrl+S", IDM_FILESAVE
MENUITEM "Save Library &As", IDM_FILESAVEAS
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "&Print\tCtrl+P", IDM_FILEPRINT
MENUITEM "Page Se&tup", IDM_FILEPAGESETUP
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "E&xit\tAlt+F4", IDM_FILEEXIT
END

POPUP "&Edit"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "&Undo\tCtrl+Z", IDM_EDITUNDO
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "&Cut\tCtrl+X", IDM_EDITCUT
MENUITEM "&Copy\tCtrl+C", IDM_EDITCOPY
MENUITEM "&Paste\tCtrl+V", IDM_EDITPASTE
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "&Delete\tDel", IDM_EDITDELETE
MENUITEM "&Select All\tCtrl+A", IDM_EDITSELECTA
MENUITEM "&Select None\tCtrl+Shift+A", IDM_EDITSELECTN
MENUITEM "&Select 1\tCtrl+1", IDM_EDITSELECT1
END

POPUP "&Help"
BEGIN
MENUITEM "&About", IDM_HELPABOUT
END

END
Thank you!

[Anonymous]

You seem to be asking very basic questions about Win32 GUI programming, and getting your information this way will result in very slow progress. Get yourself some Win32 reference material (such as Petzold's Win32 Programming) where this will certainly be covered.

Basically selecting menu item results in a WM_COMMAND message being passed to your program's message loop. When this occurs, the wParam parameter contains the menu ID as specified in the resource (IDM_FILESAVE for example). You write your message loop to check for WM_COMMAND and then call an appropriate handler (or inline the handler code) depending on wParam. An example can be found at http://omnimaga.org/ar/t1124.htm for example (I just Google'd "IDM_FILESAVE" to find that example, I am not suggesting that it is a good or bad example - find your own its that easy!)

There are also a number of examples provided with Dev-C++!

Clifford