Can you create some menu items like these?

 

 

Of course you can. But can you do it with Carbide.c++' UI Designer?

 

Unfortunately the UI Designer does not let you control a menu item's flag so you cannot design menus with either radio group or check (tick) features. Not that big of a problem since you can still write the code to add these flags at run time, each time they are loaded. Still, if you want to have the possibility of controlling these menu item appearance flags at design time too all you have to do is unpack the attached .zip file in your Carbide.c++ v2.0 installation.

 

 

Then start Carbide.c++ and ... there you have it:

 

 

Obviously this is not a big achievement but it should be a reminder that if some thing does not appear to be supported (yet) by Carbide.c++ there's always room for a little personal contribution ... Be it project or code templates or even UI Designer controls one can create/optimize them and then share with the community.

 

P.S. The current version of the hack only generates static resources, you still have to write code in order to manage the dynamic changes in a menu item's state.

 

Update (22.02.2009): Here it is, gamma.coder. I was trying to integrate it into Carbide.c++ but I stil have some problems with that so while I might still publish a full solution I hope you'll find this project helpful.