how to create menu with bitmaps using windows api

how to create menu with bitmaps through windows api

Well, here goes.

This bit of code show how to add bitmaps to current menus that where inserted using the VB Menu Editor

Code:

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'This project needs a form with a menu with at least one submenu
'It also needs a picturebox, Picture1, that contains a small b/w bitmap

Const MF_BYPOSITION = &H400&
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
Private Sub Form_Load()
 
    Dim hMenu As Long, hSubMenu As Long
    'get the handle of the menu
    hMenu = GetMenu(Me.hwnd)
    'check if there's a menu
   
    If hMenu = 0 Then
        MsgBox "This form doesn't have a menu!"
        Exit Sub
    End If
   
  'get the first submenu

    hSubMenu = GetSubMenu(hMenu, 0)
    'check if there's a submenu
   
  If hSubMenu = 0 Then
        MsgBox "This form doesn't have a submenu!"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    'set the menu bitmap
    SetMenuItemBitmaps hSubMenu, 0,MF_BYPOSITION, 

  Picture1.Picture, Picture1.Picture

End Sub

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