toolbar buttonmenu problem

i have a toolbar associated with an imglist. i have 5 images dislayed, i've sorted out the events, everything works great, but.

I want to have a submenu on one of the buttons. looking at the custom dialog for the toolbar, there is a section that allows you to insert and remove buttonmenu's, i assumed that by adding button menus i would then be able to run the app click on the toolbar button that has the submenu and it would display my submenu option. does it b*ll*ks. it doesn't do anything.

can someone tell me, or point me in the direction of a tutorial that explaisn how to get buttonmenus working with a toolbar. i've googled, i've searched this forum, i can find nothing.

any help would be much appreciated

Hopefully, one of these will help.

Toolbar

ButtonMenu Object

ButtonMenus Collection

ButtonDropDown Event

ButtonMenuClick Event

yep already looked at those and they didn't help me.

what i want to know is:

why when i've added a buttonmenu does it not display when i click on the button at runtime?

do i need to add some code to make the buttonmenu display?

when i've got the buttonmenu to display, how do i capture the click event?
(altho i think i know this one Private Sub Toolbar1_ButtonMenuClick(ByVal ButtonMenu As MSComctlLib.ButtonMenu))

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Originally Posted by sagey

(altho i think i know this one Private Sub Toolbar1_ButtonMenuClick(ByVal ButtonMenu As MSComctlLib.ButtonMenu))

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This much I do know, and this is the event you would code, i.e.

VB Code:

Private Sub Toolbar1_ButtonMenuClick(ByVal ButtonMenu As ComctlLib.ButtonMenu)
   Select Case ButtonMenu.Index
   Case 1
      'do something
   Case 2
      'do something else
   End Select
End Sub

Let me see what I can find on the dropping down part.

Got it!

On the property page of your toolbar, find the button that you wish to add a drop down menu to.

Set the Style to: tbrDropDown

In the "Button Menus" frame, click on "Insert Button Menu"
In the Text box put what you want to appear as a caption on the drop down menu.

Run your program. Next to the button that you added the menu to, you will see a "down arrow". Click on the down arrow, and your dropdown menu will appear.

yep just found out, from my collaguea (rather embarrasing) that i needed to select the dropdown type of button.

thanks for your help