This page provides a feature summary for VLMenuPlus. We have covered most
significant features of the product to give you a feel of its capabilities.
If you need any clarifications regarding features of this product, please
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- Supports a range of development environments
VLMenuPlus 5, support many development environments. You can use
it to enhance application menus in VB.Net, C#.Net, VB classic and VC++.
If you are using any other development environment, please contact our
for assistance in using VLMenuPlus in your choice of development tool.
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Look ma, no code!
VLMenuPlus is a "drop-in" menu enhancer for your applications.
You simply don't need to write code or change the way you have
programmed for menus. VLMenuPlus works with native menus.
Simply drop the control on the main form of the application, set
properties of VLMenuPlus to choose the look that you want for
your application menus and run the application.
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Icons in the menu
How often have you have desired icons in your menus similar
to MS Office™ applications? VLMenuPlus lets you incorporate
icons/bitmaps for your application menus with minimal code.
Moreover, for a large number of commonly used menu items
(for example, Open, Close, Cut, Copy, etc.) VLMenuPlus has a
built-in library of icons, and it automatically displays those
icons for appropriate menu items. Besides English, this support
is available for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Russian and Spanish language menus.
You get to choose from five built-in sets icons including Office
2003 and Office XP styled icon sets.
- Office2003 and Office XP style menus on 9x and NT platforms
VLMenuPlus provides support for Office 2003 and Office XP style menus on 9x and
NT platforms as well.
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Bitmap background for pop-up menu
VLMenuPlus lets you go way beyond anything that you might
have seen in menus. You have the option to specify a bitmap
for menu background.
- Tool tips for menus
VLMenuPlus will enable display of tool tips for menu items. You
don't have to rely on status bar to display short help message
for menus. Appearance of the tool tips can be customized to match
your application user interface.
- Desktop color matching
VLMenuPlus automatically uses color schemes set for the desktop.
Though, you can as easily use your own color scheme for the menus.
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Highlight styles
VLMenuPlus supports a variety of highlight styles that help
you build great looking menus for your applications.
- Status help display
Similar to the built-in icon library, VLMenuPlus has a built-in
library of help messages for a large number of commonly used menu
items. This support is available for Chinese, English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish menus.
(If you want this support to be extended to any other language,
please contact our
. With your help we can add
this feature for other languages as well).
Status help display capability goes beyond this - it is
automatic. VLMenuPlus will automatically locate the status
bar of your application (if you are using standard status bar)
and display help in the status bar as the highlight moves over
menu items.
Even when you are using a non-standard status bar control,
status bar help message can still be displayed with just a
single line of code.
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Menu font customization
Customize menu font globally as well as for individual menu items
using VLMenuPlus.
- Hiding Keyboard cues
VLMenuPlus automatically hides keyboard cues on Win2K and Win XP,
as per the desktop settings.
- Unicode support
VLMenuPlus lets you use Unicode text and font for your application
menus on all Win32 platforms. This opens up enormous possibilities
in terms of internationalization and localization of your application.
Automatic menu icon display and status bar help display works for
unicode menus as well (for the languages specified earlier).
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Far-eastern language support
VLMenuPlus offers native as well as non-native support for far
eastern languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. For example,
it can be used to enhance menu on a Japanese version of windows.
Also, it will let you display Japanese menus on a US-English
version of windows!
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Right to left menus
VLMenuPlus provides support for right to left menus. This is a
very important feature if you want to use it for languages like
Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu.
- Simple programming interface
With VLMenuPlus, more often than not, you won't need to write
any code to get the visual effects that you want for your
application's menu. On the rare occasions when you do need
to write code, you will find VLMenuPlus' properties, methods
and events elegant and simple to use.
- Design time menu wizard
Design time menu attribute wizard of VLMenuPlus 5, allows you to specify
menu help messages, tool tips and icon to be used with a menu item at design
time through an easy to use interface. This wizard ensures that you don't need
to write code even for your application specific menus for which VLMenuPlus
does not have built-in icon and help support.
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Custom drawn menus
VLMenuPlus provides an extensive event framework for letting
you draw your own menu items. Though we consider this as an
advanced feature, the sample application that ships with
VLMenuPlus has a demonstration of this feature.
- Integrated on-line help
VLMenuPlus ships with a detailed integrated on-line help. So,
while programming help on any property or method is just F1 away.
- Sample
VLMenuPlus setup ships with an extensive sample program
(with source) demonstrating the usages of the control.
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