Menu at Runtime

[Dorothy]

How do I add a menu item to an already existing menu at runtime?

[Vlatko]

use the

Private Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetMenuItemID Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long

to get the menu handle(hmenu) and than use AppendMenu API.

Private Declare Function AppendMenu Lib "user32" Alias "AppendMenuA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long, ByVal wIDNewItem As Long, ByVal lpNewItem As Any) As Long
Const MF_CHECKED = &H8&
Const MF_APPEND = &H100&
Const TPM_LEFTALIGN = &H0&
Const MF_DISABLED = &H2&
Const MF_GRAYED = &H1&
Const MF_SEPARATOR = &H800&
Const MF_STRING = &H0&
  AppendMenu hMenu, MF_STRING, ByVal 0&, "Hello !"
    AppendMenu hMenu, MF_GRAYED Or MF_DISABLED, ByVal 0&, "Testing ..."
    AppendMenu hMenu, MF_SEPARATOR, ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&
    AppendMenu hMenu, MF_CHECKED, ByVal 0&, "TrackPopupMenu"

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'First take a menu name it mnuFile then under it take a sub menu mnuFirst setting its Index property to 0 then add the below code to a command button.



Private Sub Command1_Click()
Static i As Integer
i = i + 1
Load mnuFirst(i)
mnuFirst(i).Visible = True
mnuFirst(i).Caption = "Menu Number" & i
End Sub