CMenuItem

Object instances of this class are used in almost all of the events of VLMenuPlus control. This class exposes following properties. Some of these are read-only properties and they are marked accordingly.

Property	Data Type	Read Only	Description
Caption	String	Yes	Returns caption text for this menu item.
CaptionFont	StdFont	No	Returns the font object for this menu item caption text. You can change the properties of the font object, but can not replace the font object.
CaptionTextHeight	Long	Yes	Returns the height of the caption text of the menu item as per current font settings.
CaptionTextWidth	Long	Yes	Returns the width of the caption text of the menu item as per current font settings.
Checked	Boolean	Yes	Returns True if the menu item is checked, otherwise returns False.
Disabled	Boolean	Yes	Returns True if the menu item is disabled, otherwise returns False.
HasSubMenus	Boolean	Yes	Returns True if the menu item has sub-menus, otherwise returns False.
hMenu	Long	Yes	Handle of the menu to which this menu item belongs.
hWnd	Long	Yes	Handle of the window to which this menu item belongs.
IsFirst	Booean	Yes	Returns True if this menu item is the first item in a popup menu
IsLast	Booean	Yes	Returns True if this menu item is the last item in a popup menu
IsSeparator	Booean	Yes	Returns True if this menu item is a Separator bar.
IsTopLevel	Booean	Yes	Returns True if this menu item is a part of the top menu bar, otherwise returns False.
Language	Long	No	Returns the language of the menu item. This will decide the help message collection that will be looked up to get the default help message .
MenuId	Long	Yes	Returns the Id of the menu item.
MenuText	String	Yes	Returns the text correponding to the menu item, it includes the caption as well as the shortcut text.
ParentMenuId	Long	Yes	Returns the Command Id of the parent menu item. For top level menu items it returns -1.
Picture	StdPicture	No	Returns the Picture used for showing a bitmap next to the menu text. You can set a new picture for the menu item.
PictureBackColor	OLE_COLOR	No	Returns the background color in the picture. If you specify a Picture, you should also specify the PictureBackground color so that the menu bitmap shows up correctly on all desktop coloring schemes.
ShortcutFont	StdFont	No	Returns the font object for this menu item shortcut text. You can change the properties of the font object, but can not replace the font object.
ShortcutText	String	Yes	Returns the text corresponding to the shortcut key specified for this menu item
ShortcutTextHeight	Long	Yes	Returns the height of the shortcut text of the menu item as per current font settings.
ShortcutTextWidth	Long	Yes	Returns the width of the shortcut text of the menu item as per current font settings.
ToolTipText	String	No	Sets/Returns the text that will be displayed in the tooltip corresponding to this menu item. By default, this is set equal to the corresponding status bar help message. A different tooltip text can be specified in SetMenuItemAttributes event.
Unicode	Boolean	No	Setting this property to TRUE will allow you to use unicode string and font for this menu's caption. This property will be initialized to same value as you have specified for Unicode property of the control. It can be overriden in the SetMenuItemAttributes event.