Creating Menus in Visual Basic

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Creating Menus in Visual Basic

• Adding Complexity Without Clutter
• Or
• How to Get the Most Out of Your Forms

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Some Applications Require A Lot Of Options

• Excessive command buttons can be distracting.
• Distraction leads to confusion.
• Confusion detracts from efficiency.

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Menu Items Placed on the Top of a Form Can
Replace Several Command Buttons Without Taking up
Any Space
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You Create Menus With the Icon Menu Editor
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Lets Start One From Scratch...
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Using a Simple Form, Select Menu Editor
A pop-up window called Menu Editor will
appear. Key File into the Caption box. This is
the name that will appear on the form. Then key
mnuFile in the Name box. This is how Basic will
track the event. Notice the 3-character prefix
mnu
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Now Do the Same for the Rest...

• Notice certain conventions like...
• Name carries the name New as well as the menu
  item from which it came.
• A shortcut is added
• In the window, New is moved to the left with
  the arrow button making New subordinate to File

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Now Lets Go Into the Code...
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The Names You Made Are the Control Names in the
Object Box
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...And the Properties Are Pre-set
(Name) came from the Menu Editor as well as your
caption and hot key () designation. Just like a
check box, Checked is set to False
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Lets Now Move Directly Into the Program Demo...