hey how can i add a menu item to the icon menu on top of the form(control menu), any quick and dirty way to accomplish this?
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hey how can i add a menu item to the icon menu on top of the form(control menu), any quick and dirty way to accomplish this?
To add to the control menu:
Code:'Tip by Steve Anderson
1. Start a new Standard-Exe project, form1 is created by default.
2. Add a standard module to the project, project menu and click 'add module'
3. The new module should open up by default. Add the following code.
Option Explicit
Declare Function AppendMenu Lib "user32" Alias _
"AppendMenuA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal wFlags _
As Long, ByVal wIDNewItem As Long, ByVal _
lpNewItem As String) As Long
Declare Function GetSystemMenu Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal bRevert As Long) As Long
Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" _
Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Declare Function CallWindowProc Lib "user32" _
Alias "CallWindowProcA" (ByVal lpPrevWndFunc _
As Long, ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal Msg As _
Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
Public Const WM_SYSCOMMAND = &H112
Public Const MF_SEPARATOR = &H800&
Public Const MF_STRING = &H0&
Public Const GWL_WNDPROC = (-4)
Public Const IDM_ABOUT As Long = 1010
Public lProcOld As Long
Public Function SysMenuHandler(ByVal hWnd _
As Long, ByVal iMsg As Long, ByVal wParam _
As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
If iMsg = WM_SYSCOMMAND Then
If wParam = IDM_ABOUT Then
MsgBox "About . . .", vbInformation, "About"
Exit Function
End If
End If
SysMenuHandler = CallWindowProc(lProcOld, _
hWnd, iMsg, wParam, lParam)
End Function
Public Function SubClass(FormName As Form)
Dim lhSysMenu As Long, lRet As Long
lhSysMenu = GetSystemMenu(FormName.hWnd, 0&)
lRet = AppendMenu(lhSysMenu, MF_SEPARATOR, 0&, _
vbNullString)
lRet = AppendMenu(lhSysMenu, MF_STRING, _
IDM_ABOUT, "About...")
FormName.Show
lProcOld = SetWindowLong(FormName.hWnd, GWL_WNDPROC, _
AddressOf SysMenuCode.SysMenuHandler)
End Function
4. Open up the code window for form1 and type the following
Option Explicit
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim d As String
d = SubClass(Form1) 'Type the name of the form d =
SubClass(<FormName>)
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
SetWindowLong Me.hWnd, GWL_WNDPROC, lProcOld
End Sub
5. I have altered the code to work with any form just specify the form name where I have commented the code.
6. Run the project by clicking on run on the toolbar or from the run menu.
If you click on the control menu then you will see two items. One a separator and the other which says 'About...'. Click on about and a message box appears with my copyright.