Drop down Menu - icon

[ands_au]

Hi there,
I want to add an icon/image against a menu item in the drop down menu list.Any suggestions. Thanks.

[Iouri]

' API stuff for putting bitmaps in menus.
Private Type MENUITEMINFO
cbSize As Long
fMask As Long
fType As Long
fState As Long
wid As Long
hSubMenu As Long
hbmpChecked As Long
hbmpUnchecked As Long
dwItemData As Long
dwTypeData As Long
cch As Long
End Type

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 SetMenuItemInfo Lib "user32" Alias "SetMenuItemInfoA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal un As Long, ByVal bypos As Long, lpcMenuItemInfo As MENUITEMINFO) As Long

Private Const MF_BITMAP = &H4&
Private Const MFT_BITMAP = MF_BITMAP
Private Const MIIM_TYPE = &H10

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim main_menu As Long
Dim sub_menu As Long
Dim menu_info As MENUITEMINFO
Dim i As Integer

main_menu = GetMenu(hwnd)
sub_menu = GetSubMenu(main_menu, 0)
For i = 0 To 2
With menu_info
.cbSize = Len(menu_info)
.fMask = MIIM_TYPE
.fType = MFT_BITMAP
.dwTypeData = picFace(i).Picture
End With
SetMenuItemInfo sub_menu, i, True, menu_info
Next i
End Sub




Iouri Boutchkine
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