How to use VLMenuPlus control?

VLMenuPlus control is very easy to use. You just drop the control on your form and write a couple of lines in the control events to get a fully functional bitmap menu with status bar help message feature into your application.

VLMenuPlus provides default bitmaps and help messages for a large number of commonly used menu items. You do not need to specify any bitmap or help messages for these menu items unless you want to display a different bitmap and/or message than the one provided by VLMenuPlus. Also, it can automatically detect the Microsoft status bar control and display help message is the first pane of the statusbar.

For the application specific menus, user will need to add the help messages. Typically this is done in the form load event. Later when the user selects this menu item, the same message string will be passed through the control event.

VLMenuPlus provides methods to minimize the code you need to write to load help messages in control. For details please see help for AddCompositeMessage method.

If you are building an MDI application, you will need to drop this control only on the MDI form, not on individual MDI child forms. VLMenuControl will automatically register menus of all MDI child windows.