Updates: IconMenu Control

28 Mar 2003

• Added support for Office XP Style menus.
• VB6 ImageList under XP is now supported.
• Can now customise menu foreground and background colours as with the other menu controls.

19 Nov 2002

• Added VB6 Binaries for the project
• Updated ImageList processing: under Windows 2000 and XP with a VB6 image list, no icons were displayed.
• Updated the Menu Background colour for compatibility with XP

10 Jan 1999

• A major update to the control:
• The control now works in MDI projects where there are multiple child form menus. Check the demonstration project Using the Icon Menu control in MDI projects with multiple child form menus to see how to do it.
• Added InsertItem and RemoveItem methods. Now it is much easier to create new menu items.
• Added ReplaceItem method to allow multiple properties of a menu item to be updated in a single call.
• Added the MenuDefault property. Setting this property for a menu item causes the text to be drawn in a bold font, like the default menu items on popup-menus.
• Added the CheckForNewMenuItems method. This allows you to work around (in a somewhat limited way) the lack of support for VB's Load, Unload and Visible methods. See the main cPopMenu article for a description.
• Added the MenuItemsPerScreen property. This returns the number of menu items which can be shown vertically and can be used in combination with the new Caption special characters to break menus.
• The Caption property now supports two more special characters in addition to "-" (menu separator bar) for vertical breaks.
• Added the BackgroundBitmap property - this allows you to set a picture which will be tiled behind the menu items.
• Fixed bug in the Caption property - when you changed a menu's caption, and the new caption was a different length to the previous one, the menu did not resize to accommodate the new item. This could lead to menus which were too wide, or truncation of the caption text.
• Fixed bug in the MenuKey property - this was never saved for new items added to the menu. (Doh!) Now it works correctly for all menu items.
• Cleaned up the sample demonstration code to exercise all the new features, and added more comments.
• Thanks to everyone who wrote in with bug reports and feature requests.

22 Nov 1998

• The MenuExit event was not fired for the first menu in the control. Thanks to Aaron Abdis for pointing this out.

10 Oct 1998

• Fixed a bug where a VB status bar sometimes failed to refresh when a form was loaded. Also, occasionally the control would interrupt processing of WM_COMMAND messages.

16 Aug 1998

• Various improvements have been incorporated into the drawing routine so disabled and checked items draw more clearly. Thanks to Kim Pedersen for his input.

16 Aug 1998

• Various improvements have been incorporated into the drawing routine so disabled and checked items draw more clearly. Thanks to Kim Pedersen for his input.