27.1. Adding menu selections

To add menu selections, open the Resource View as described in Appendix C. Click on the boxed little + signs as necessary to navigate down into the display until you see the Menu | IDR_POPTYPE selection. Double-click on this to open the menu in the Resource Editor.

(By the way, you might wonder about the Menu | IDR_MAINFRAME selection. This menu is what appears when no game documents are open; you can see it by closing all active games in the Pop program. Normally we don’t bother changing this menu.)

Once you open the IDR_POPTYPE menu in the Resource Editor, you see a picture of a menu bar resource in the Resource Editor window on the right; you can edit this menu bar in a graphical manner. You can also change the ...

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