Introduction

VB developers often want to display small bitmaps next to the menu items (similar to various Microsoft Office applications). VLMenuPlus makes it extremely simple to display bitmaps along side your menu items. It also lets you specify a picture that should be used as the background for your menus.

Applications built using Visual C++ and MFC automatically have the feature of displaying brief help messages on the status bar. These messages are very handy for new users of your application. While VC++ programmers get this feature for free as a part of MFC framework, Visual basic menus do not provide any event where which facility could be easily incorporated.

VLMenuPlus allows you to specify a font for the whole menu. Also, you can specify font for each individual menu item. This offers wonderful possibilities if you want to build applications that display menu in a different script.

Bitmap menus together with status bar help messages allow you to create very professional looking applications in VB with minimal amount of additional coding. Facility of controlling the menu font at application level opens up enormous possibilities for delivering applications with menus in a language / script of your choice.

VLMenuPlus supports Right to Left reading menus. This feature makes it easily usable for languages like Hebrew, Arabic etc.

VLMenuPlus also provides tooltip support for your menus. You can chose from tooltip styles, specify colors for the tooltip and also the tooltip timings

VLMenuPlus supports unicode strings and unicode font for VB menus on all win32 platforms, allowing you to deliver menus in practically any language on any of the win32 platforms.

Sample Screenshots

• Sample 1   Simple Bitmapped Menus
• Sample 2   Office XP style menu using multiple fonts
• Sample 3   Popup menu with background picture and a tooltip

Key Features