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Menus
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
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:
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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.
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
Private Sub Form_MouseUp(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
If Button = vbRightButton Then
' Set the flags
vFlags = vbPopupMenuRightButton
' Display the menu
PopupMenu about, vFlags
End If
End Sub
do i need to dim vFlags = "somthing " in the Option Explicit section of the code?
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/show/49/4/ (menu status subclassing)
not sure about changing the colour of your menu, other than drawing it yourself, or using one of the http://vbaccelerator.com/ controls
i click view an example and no example???
i really want to change the look of my menu,change color or nything? ny ideas?
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