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Creating Submenus
In the Menu editor, you will notice that when you press the < and > buttons, dots will appear before the selected item. These show what item belongs to what. For example:
| &File ....&Open ....&Save ....&Insert... ........&Text ........&Image ....&Close &Help ....&About |
<< Top Menu << Menu item of File << Menu item of File << Menu item of File << Sub Menu of Insert << Sub Menu of Insert << Menu item of File << Top Menu << Menu item of Help |
So, to create a sub menu, simply follow these steps:
1) Select Tools | Menu Editor
2) Create a menu item which you want to contain the sub menu (which will have the > after it) i.e. Insert on the File menu
3) Insert an item after the menu item you have just created. (i.e. after Insert...). Click Insert:
4) Enter the text to be displayed for the sub menu item in the Caption text box (i.e. Text). As always you can use the & to set the Shortcut key: So &Text would display the menu item Text.
5) Enter a name for the menu item. This will be used when accessing the menu's properties in your code.
6) Press the > button until the item is indented once more than the menu you want to contain a sub menu. You will see four dots (....) appear before the text Open. This shows that Open is a sub menu item on the menu item Insert:
6) Click OK. If you have used the examples, you will now see something like this when you click on File:
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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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