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Notes Unit 10: Menus

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

10.1 Creating Menus
10.2 Menu defined as Resource Data
10.3 Creating a Menu using the Borland Resource Workshop

10.4 Complex Menu
10.4.1 Standard Functionality of Shortcut Keys
10.5 Creating a Menu as a Program Operates
10.6 Creating Menu Containing Bitmaps and the System Menu
10.6.1 Creating Menu Containing Bitmaps

10.6.2 The System Menu
10.7 Summary
10.8 Keywords

10.9 Review Questions
10.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Understand the concept of creating menus

 Illustrate Menu defined as resource data
 Discuss creating a menu using the borland resource workshop
 Understand the concept of complex menu

 Recognize how to creating menu containing bitmaps
 Discuss system menu
Introduction

Menus are a very important element of GUIs. We see menus and we use them in practically
every application, whether MS-Word or MS-Excel or Photoshop or even VB. In this unit, we will
focus on creating menus using VB.

10.1 Creating Menus

For getting started with menus, we get going with the Menu Editor. This tool helps us to
effortlessly create a menu interface for our applications, that too in no time. To invoke the menu
editor, we either:

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