Office Menus

[Guest]

Could someone please advise how i could i have menus within my apps as the
same as Office 2003. I think i have to add some sort of reference into my
toolbox but do i need to download some kind of SDK before doing that? Any
help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Could someone please advise how i could i have
menus within my apps as the same as Office 2003.

For example:

<URL:http://divil.co.uk/net/controls/sandbar/>

 

[Guest]

Thanks for replying. Yes a bit like that however this article tells me i can
do it using my own IDE and will not have to create an application or .dll, i
just need to reference it the add code:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/menu/MhOffice2003Menus.asp

Thanks

 

[Brian Henry]

there is a big difference between office menu's and that menu... office
menu's are done on the old basis of rebar's which are not the same as a
standard windows menu... VB 2005 will have the new menus in them by default.

 

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi LC,

I've reviewed the article and you are correct. What you have to do is
download the sample application; then add the component to your toolbar (its
name is office menu control.dll and it can be found in the release
subdirectory of the project); then you should be able to reference it. I am
going to try it now just for my own edification, but I currently am very
happy using the same menu that Herfried referred to, available at
divil.co.uk.

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

 

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi LC,

Another update - yes, it works, but setting colors, fonts etc seem to
require changes to base drawing elements, and the supposed 'test solution'
doesn't have a solution in it.

You're better off with the menu Herfried referred to - it's easy to change
colors, add icons, etc.

Bernie Yaeger

 

[C-Services Holland b.v.]

Could someone please advise how i could i have menus within my apps as the
same as Office 2003. I think i have to add some sort of reference into my
toolbox but do i need to download some kind of SDK before doing that? Any
help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I've had some nice results with this:
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/vsnetstylemenusvb.asp