Menus

To create menus in VB you use the Menu Editor. You can find this under Tools | Menu Editor. The VB Menu editor:

To create a top menu (i.e. File), use the following steps:

1) Select Tools | Menu Editor

2) Enter the text to be displayed for the menu in the Caption text box (i.e. File). As always you can use the & to set the Shortcut key: So &File would display the menu File and could be accessed by Alt+F

3) Enter a name for the menu. This will be used when accessing the menu's properties in your code.

4) Make sure that there are no dots before File in the list box (i.e. ...File). If there are, press the < button on the dialog box until there are none. These will be explained later.

5) Click OK. If you have used the examples, you will now see something like this:

When you click the menu, you will see there are no Menu Items. This will be explained in the next section