Pull down Menu

[pueromane]

I have written an program witch has a pull down menu. I want to make at run time new etries in the pull down menu. At the moment I have 10 etries witch are hidden. When I want to make a new one, I set it to not hidden. But with this methode I can only add 10 new entries.

How can I add more entries. Is there an add methode or any other methode witch I can use.

mfG Pueromane

[Jean Spector]

If you define menu as an array (in menu editor change Index field to something other than zero) you can add/remove additional menu items with Load/Unload

Jean Spector
Tech Support Team Leader, CET
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(in VB from 11/1999)

[pueromane]

I have an array but how can I use the Load/Unload functions. Can you give me an example.

mfG Puermane

[Chris Eastwood]

Here's a quick example - take a new project and to Form1, add a menu (mnuFile), then add a menu item below it called mnuItem with an index of 0.


Dim lCount as Long

for lCount = 1 to 10
Load mnuItem(lCount)
mnuItem(lCount).Caption = "Menu item " & lCount
mnuItem(lCount).Visible = true
next




You can now check which menu item was clicked in the mnuItem_Click event :

private Sub mnuItem_Click(Index as Integer)
MsgBox "Menu " & mnuItem(Index).Caption & " clicked"
End Sub




- of course, you might want to place something in the 'tag' property of each menu item to identify them a little better.

The 'Unload' function simply removes the items at runtime :


Dim lCount as Long

for lCount = 10 to 1 step -1
Unload mnuItem(lCount)
next






Chris Eastwood

CodeGuru - the website for developers
http://codeguru.developer.com/vb

[pueromane]

thanks Chris.
It works great. That's the thing I was searching for.

mfG Pueromane