Adding icons to Menus????

Morning everyone,

Does anyone know how to add icons to menus? I have tried using the 'Adding Bitmaps to Menus' example on VB World but I could only get a bitmap image to appear next to the first item on my form menu.

My form menu structure is as follows:

File: New, Open, Close, Exit
Edit: Cut, Copy, Paste

What I need to do is add icons to the 'New, Open, Exit' items under the file menu and to 'Cut, Copy & Paste' under the edit menu.

The code I am using at the moment is the code from vb world:

The code below is in a code module

Code:

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Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long

Declare Function GetMenuItemID Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long

Declare Function SetMenuItemBitmaps Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPosition As Long, _
ByVal wFlags As Long, ByVal hBitmapUnchecked As Long, _
ByVal hBitmapChecked As Long) As Long

Public Const MF_BITMAP = &H4&

Type MENUITEMINFO
    cbSize As Long
    fMask As Long
    fType As Long
    fState As Long
    wID As Long
    hSubMenu As Long
    hbmpChecked As Long
    hbmpUnchecked As Long
    dwItemData As Long
    dwTypeData As String
    cch As Long
End Type

Declare Function GetMenuItemCount Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hMenu As Long) As Long

Declare Function GetMenuItemInfo Lib "user32" _
Alias "GetMenuItemInfoA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, _
ByVal un As Long, ByVal b As Boolean, _
lpMenuItemInfo As MENUITEMINFO) As Boolean

Public Const MIIM_ID = &H2
Public Const MIIM_TYPE = &H10
Public Const MFT_STRING = &H0&

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The code below is in a Form

Code:

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hMenu& = GetMenu(Form1.hwnd)
hSubMenu& = GetSubMenu(hMenu&, 0)
hID& = GetMenuItemID(hSubMenu&, 0)
SetMenuItemBitmaps hMenu&, hID&, MF_BITMAP, _
Picture1.Picture, Picture1.Picture

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Thanks in advance for any help,

Xan

Try the control on VbSmart. There is alsoa tutorial on how to use the control and an example app which uses it.

Hopethishelpsyou

VB Code:

Option Explicit
 
Private Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" _
   (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" _
   (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function SetMenuItemBitmaps Lib "user32" _
   (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPosition As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long, _
    ByVal hBitmapUnchecked As Long, ByVal hBitmapChecked As Long) As Long
 
Const MF_BYPOSITION = &H400&
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
 
Dim mHandle As Long, lRet As Long, sHandle As Long, sHandle2 As Long
    mHandle = GetMenu(Me.hwnd)
    sHandle = GetSubMenu(mHandle, 0)
    '--NEW
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(1).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 0, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
    '--VIEW
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(2).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 1, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
    '--DELETE
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(3).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 2, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
    '--SAVE
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(4).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 3, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
    '--PRINT
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(5).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 4, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
    '--CLEAR
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(6).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 5, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
    '--CLOSE
    I1.Picture = imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(7).Picture
    lRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(sHandle, 6, MF_BYPOSITION, I1.Picture, I1.Picture)
 
 
 
End Sub

imlToolbarIcons.ListImages(7).Picture
is imagelist attached to toolbar...

u can use picture1.picture

Oh and to post code, use [vbcode] [/vbcode] tags instead of the code tags to give the color formating :)

thanks

There is also a full-source module you can add in, found here. It works for single window apps, MDI, and toolbar buttonmenus.