VB Menu2000 ActiveX Control version 1

VB Menu2000 ActiveX Control version 1.0

Introduction

VB Menu2000 is an activeX control that makes VB developers easily create or upgrade their application menu with Microsoft Office 2000 menu look. The Menu2000 designer allows developers to associate a picture with a menu object. Developers can view the customized menu objects at design mode. It provides a WYSWYG interface. No coding is needed and zero impact on using it to upgrade existing application.

Followings are steps to customize menu objects using VB Menu2000:

Add a Menu2000 control into a form.
If you haven't created menu for the form, create menu by using VB Menu Editor as usual.

Open Menu2000 designer, you will see all the menu objects listed in a list view box.
To add/update picture of a menu object, simply select the row and double click it. A file dialog box will popup and you can select any of bmp, ico, or cur file as the picture of the menu.
To delete a picture, click the button at the right of the picture, a message box will popup to ask you confirm whether you want to delete the picture or not. Answer yes to delete the picture.
The Apply button will be enabled Once you make changes to the menu pictures. To save your changes, click the Apply button before close the designer.

To view how the menu looks like, simply click the top level menu item on the form design window. The pictures you defined should be shown in the menu. The menu is exactly same as what you will see in the run time.

Special Comments

1. only one Menu2000 control can be added to one form.
2. VB Menu2000 control is invisible in run time.
3. VB menu2000 supports both SDI and MDI application. Customizing MDI form menu and MDI child menu are exactly the same. MDI application always needs add a Menu2000 control to the MDI form even though you don't want customize MDI form menu or the MDI form does not have a menu. This is because the Menu2000 control on MDI form plays the role of corrdinating menu switching among different types of MDI child forms and the MDI form.
4. The picture file names that are listed in the designer are information purpose only. The actual pictures are saved in the .frx file of your form.
5. The menu designer lists all menu objects except for the menu separators. However, the top level menu objects cannot have pictures added on. So associating a picture to a top level menu object results no effect. In fact, this is a limitation of the designer, it cannot get information whether or not a menu object is top level menu object or not.

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