When I load a new instance of a panel with a menu bar defined on it, the new menu bar and the old menu bar have the same ID.

[D S]

I have a panel which I wish to reuse a bunch of times.  It has a menu bar on it.  When I seperately load, display, and operate more than one instance of this panel the menu bars are linked.  How should I make a panel with a menu in it which can be reused but the menus are all separated?

Thanks,

DS

[RobertoBozzolo]

Well, actually the menus have the same IDs, but their functions receive panel handle as the last parameter so that you can differentiate various instances of the menus from this value.

[D S]

Thanks! I see the panel information is there but I do not know how to use it properly. 

The code below makes only one item checked on a menu (you pick one item and it is checked and any others are cleared).

Do you have any suggestions how I might do that to only the menu that was picked and not the other menu on the other panel?

void CVICALLBACK select_deselect_exclusive (int menuBar, int menuItem, void *callbackData,int panel)
{
int is_checked;
  GetMenuBarAttribute (menuBar, menuItem, ATTR_CHECKED, &is_checked);
  if(!is_checked)
    {
    int menu_id = 1;
    find_menu(menuBar,menuItem,&menu_id);
    while(menu_id !=0)
      {
        SetMenuBarAttribute (menuBar, menu_id, ATTR_CHECKED, 0);
        GetMenuBarAttribute (menuBar, menu_id, ATTR_NEXT_ITEM_ID, &menu_id);
      }
    SetMenuBarAttribute (menuBar, menuItem, ATTR_CHECKED, 1);
    }
}

[D S]

ok i figured this out.

thanks for your help!

to make multiple instances of the same menu work you need to NOT associate the menu in the *.uir file and load it explicitly when you load the panel.

you can load lots of menus this way and they do not check / uncheck each other with the previous code i had

  if ((graph_report = LoadPanelEx (report, "ui_graph.uir",GRAPHPANEL,__CVIUserHInst)) < 0) return -1;
  if ((graph_report_menu = LoadMenuBarEx (graph_report, "ui_graph.uir", GRAPH, __CVIUserHInst)) < 0) return -1;
  SetPanelMenuBar (graph_report, graph_report_menu);