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Notes  The ‘Enabled’ and ‘Visible’ checkboxes are ‘checked’ by default, which means that
the menu will be both visible and enabled at the time of creation.

 The ‘Shortcut’ option gives us a drop-down list for assigning shortcut keys to our
menus (more on this a little later).
Suppose we want to create a menu for helping the user change the backcolor of the form
to either red or blue or green. For this, we create a menu like this:
 Type 1st caption as ‘Red’, 1st name as ‘mnured’. Click on ‘Next’ button.
 Type 2nd caption as ‘Blue’, 2nd name as ‘mnublu’. Click on ‘Next’ button.

 Type 3rd caption as ‘Green’, 3rd name as ‘mnugre’.
:
We should be seeing the menu editor, along with the menus as follows:

 : Click on the ‘OK’ button. The menu editor closes, and the form reappears, giving an
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appearance as shown below. Observe the menu that appears just below the title bar of the
form:
Click

Coding for Menus

The user interface for the menus is ready. Now we will code them to carry out the desired tasks
C when the user clicks on it. Click on a menu in the design window to open the code window. Now
code for the menus click event:
Code Listing menu.1
PRIVATE SUB mnured_CLICK ( )
form1.BACKCOLOR = VBRED
END SUB

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