Creating menus in VB
1. Concept of menus- Menus are a convenient and consistent way of grouping commands. We can create menus in VB by using Menu Editor. Generally there are two types of menus:-
1. Horizontal menu- known as menu bar
2. Vertical menu- Known as Sub-menu
2. Designing menus- We can design menu by using menu editor. We can invoke menu editor by clicking at Menu editor button on the Standard toolbar or by using tools → Menu editor command or by using Ctrl+E shortcut key from the keyboard.
3. Assigning access-key
i) First we need to select Menu Item to which we want to assign access-key
ii) Now in the caption textbox we can type & (ampersand) symbol immediately infront of the letter that we want to use as access-key. E.g. If we write &File then F is the access key for this menu item.
4. Adding shortcut-key
i) First we need to open Menu Editor
ii) Now we can select the Menu Item
iii) Now we can select shortcut key from the shortcut combo box
Note: We can't assign shortcut key to a top level menu
4. Separating menu items
i) First we need to write (-) hyphen symbol in the caption textbox
ii) Now we can write the name & can click Ok button.