Dynamic menu using mfc

Question

I would like to add a menu item to my main menu and then populate it with items at run time. How would I do this? And besides adding items how would I have a message map en

Answer 1

define the menu's using #define

#define ID_SHOW   2002
#define ID_HIDE   2004

//create a menu object for main menu
CMenu *menu    = new CMenu();
menu->CreateMenu();

//another menu object for submenu
CMenu *subMenu = new CMenu();
subMenu->CreatePopupMenu();
subMenu->AppendMenu(MF_STRING, ID_HIDE, _T("four"));
subMenu->AppendMenu(MF_STRING, ID_SHOW, _T("three"));
//append submenu to menu
menu->AppendMenu(MF_POPUP|MF_STRING, (UINT)subMenu->m_hMenu,  _T("Advanced") );
SetMenu(menu);