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Menus - Introduction

Introduction

Menus are the easiest way to give a user multiple options without creating a crowded display. It is also very easy to do.

In most applications there are the standard menus: File, Edit, View, Window and Help. Users know what to expect to find on these menus. For example, on the File menu you always can open and save files, or open a recent file, and the View menu allows you to make changes to what you can see. If you start changing where you put these basic functions you will confuse the user. Stick to these and you will not go wrong.

The VB Menu system:

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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  • help with the code

    Posted by minor on 28 Apr 2003

    In this tutorial i dosent tell you the code for the menu. and im also very new to vb so if someone could tell me what i need to do for the code that would be great.

  • VFlags variable not defined?

    Posted by planethax on 17 Nov 2002

    I have made a menu with1 1 Item (about) set it to enable - unchecked visable
    made a click event(msg box)

    then in my form mouse up event I put
    [code]
    Private Sub Form_MouseUp(Button As Integer, ...

  • Posted by James Crowley on 20 May 2002

    sorry 'bout that... there was an old style link lurking in there... I have corrected the link on

    http://www.developerfusion.com/show/15/10/, which now points to

    http://www.developerfusion.com/sh...

  • example

    Posted by Rollershade on 20 May 2002

    i click view an example and no example???
    i really want to change the look of my menu,change color or nything? ny ideas?