Icons on the menu bar?

You know on programs like word, and excel you click File or hit alt+F and you will see next to new a little sheet of paper thingy, and next to open you see a folder. How do you put thos pics in?

Take a look at this example.

Still need more? Search www.planet-source-code.com for "Menu Icons".

Code:

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

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

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

Public 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

Function Pic_Menu(HdcPicC As Long, HdcPicUnC As Long)
  Dim lngMenu As Long
  Dim lngSubMenu As Long
  Dim lngMenuItemID As Long
  Dim lngRet As Long

  lngMenu = GetMenu(Form1.hwnd)

  lngSubMenu = GetSubMenu(lngMenu, 0)

  lngMenuItemID = GetMenuItemID(lngSubMenu, 2)

  lngRet = SetMenuItemBitmaps(lngMenu, lngMenuItemID, 0, _
    Picture1.Picture, Picture1.Picture)
End Function

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This example supports only 13x13 bitmaps.

If you make menus with a couple of classes I've made, you can have menus that are exactly like the VB menus ;)

I'm e-mailing it to you now...

Code:

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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 GetMenuItemID 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_BITMAP = &H4&

Private Sub Command1_Click()

    Dim hMenu As Long, hSub As Long, ItemID As Long
    hMenu = GetMenu(Me.hwnd)
    hSub = GetSubMenu(hMenu, 0)
    ItemID = GetMenuItemID(hSub, 0)
    SetMenuItemBitmaps hMenu, ItemID, MF_BITMAP, Picture1.Picture, Picture1.Picture

End Sub

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Just a quick question about the code above .
When I use it my Icons seem to lose they're transparency .
I mean I have an icon with a transparent background , but
when it loads up into the menu it gets sort of discolored . How can I avoid that ?

[]P

I think you have to use 4 bit colors :(

Ouch!!!! ok thanks for the idea . Is there away around this ?

I'm sure there is (look at all the menus in some apps), but nobody seems to know