Can i build controls with Begin End of Form Initial Parameters ?

Hi guys!

I'm looking some practical way to create vb-menus without a lot a API's or components.

When i open the form trough the notepad, i can see some structure apparently easy to write.

Like:

Begin VB.Menu MyMenu
.Caption = "Menu"
End

It seems to be easy to use... but i cant use this code inside any class. Can i use this standard by some way?

just one question instead of hard coding all why not use build in controls ? that i dont understand why people do allot of coding

I don't know if i thinking on the same thing...

But, how would this be? (To create a menu)

As I recall you have to have at least one Item in a menu with an index value at design-time.
Then at run-time you can add or remove menu items from that menu.

How this works is very similar to creating a control array at design-time.
Each menu item has to have an index value.

FileMenu(0), FileMenu(1), Etc...
The cool thing about this is that your FileMenu_Click event returns this index value so you know which item was clicked.

I've used this method to add or remove last used documents from the File menu.
The item could even be a separator bar.

So basically if you have a menu structure in place at design-time with at least one menu item defined in every part of the structure you can happily edit items in that structure.

If you want to do anything fancier then you need the API tools.

Example:

Top Menu item defined at design-time called "File"
the menu name is "MainMenu" and the index is 0.
Also at design-time create a sub-menu under File called "Open"
The menu name is "FileMenu" and the index is 0.

At run-time.

Code:

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Private Button1_Click()
  Dim i as integer

  Load MainMenu(1)
  MainMenu(1).Caption = "Edit"
  Load MainMenu(2)
  MainMenu(2).Caption = "View"

  For i = 1 to 3
    Load FileMenu(i)
    FileMenu(i).Caption = "Save " & i   
  Next i       
End Sub

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By... only using this way, it's hard or impossible to add sub-itens or multiple menu level's.

True. That is why some prefer to use the menu API tools.

BTW if you use the API tools to create menus/sub menus always remember to destroy the menus when you are done with them.
They take up more resources than you would think and I do not believe the memory they use is automatically freed up.

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Originally Posted by Gruff

True. That is why some prefer to use the menu API tools.

BTW if you use the API tools to create menus/sub menus always remember to destroy the menus when you are done with them.
They take up more resources than you would think and I do not believe the memory they use is automatically freed up.

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Do you know someone (API)?

The answer to the last question was already given to you in your previous thread:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...B6-application

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Originally Posted by Arnoutdv

The answer to the last question was already given to you in your previous thread:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...B6-application

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But... not successful

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Originally Posted by Rumblefish

But... not successful

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What do you mean? Did you apply that example to your project? Did you get errors? Do you UNDERSTAND the API?