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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 3 - Menu Manager / Menu Manager Reference

Getting a Menu Bar Description From an 'MBAR' Resource
You usually create your application's menu bar by doing the following:

defining the order and resource ID of your menus in an 'MBAR' resource
defining the menus in 'MENU' resources
reading in these descriptions using the GetNewMBar function
setting the current menu list to the menu list returned by GetNewMBar
updating the menu bar using DrawMenuBar

Subtopics

GetNewMBar