DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

NDHRA PRADESH
Name of the faculty : G. Radha
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : CCP
Institute : 026 - SG Govt. Polytechnic, Adilabad
Year / Semester : III Year / V Semester
Subject : Visual Basic – I
Subject Code : CCP - 503
Topic : Understand Menus and Common
dialogue control .
Duration : 50 Mts.
Sub Topic : Designing Menu to third level.
Teaching Aids : Animations & Images

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 Recap

 Creation of Menus at design time using menu design

window, in detail

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 Objectives :

Upon the completion of this period, you will be

able to understand

 How to design Menus at run time up to third level

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 Details of Menu to be created - 1
 This program contains a menu bar with two titles Colors
and Size

 The Colors menu allows selection of a color from a menu

and fills the program’s Form with the selected color

 The colors menu has menu items FillColor and Exit

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Details of Menu to be created - 2
 When the FillColor is clicked another menu appears
with a list of colors.

 This is a sub menu of the menu FillColor

 The Form is filled with selected color from the sub

menu

 The Size Menu contains Menu items Small and Large

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Details of Menu to be created - 3

 First we have to create Menus & Submenus using

Menu Design Window

 Then we have to write code in Code Window to

control the menus at run time

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 Designing Menu

Follow these steps :-

 A new Standard Exe Project is opened and the Form,

and the Project files are saved as frmColor.frm and
Colors.VBP respectively

 The Form is designed as per the properties table given

below

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Properties of form

Object Property Settings

Form Caption COLOR/SIZE

Form Name frmColor

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Specifications of Menu to be created

Caption Name
&Colors MnuColors
…&FillColor MnuFillColor
……&Red MnuRed
……&Green MnuGreen
……&Blue MnuBlue
&Size MnuSize
…S&mall MnuSmall
…&Large MnuLarge

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Designing Menu

Follow these steps :-

 After setting the Menu Editor, &Colors is typed in the
Caption Text Box and MnuColors in the Name Text Box

 The ‘&’ character underlines the letter C. This property

allows us to press ‘Alt+C’ while the program is running,
which has the same effect of clicking Colors in the Menu

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Designing menu

 The Next button is clicked and &FillColor is typed in

the Caption Text Box and MnuFillColor in the Name
Text Box.

 The right arrow button is clicked now to make this as

lower level of Colors Item

• The Next button is clicked and &Exit is typed in the

Caption Text Box and MnuExit in the Name Text Box
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Designing Menu

 The Next button is clicked and &Size is typed in the

Caption Text Box and MnuSize in the Name Text Box. The
left arrow button is clicked now to make this as the same
level with Colors Item

 Now the Next button is clicked and S&mall is typed in the

Caption Text Box and MnuSmall in the Name Text Box.
The right arrow is clicked to make this as the lower level to
Size Item

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 Designing Menu

• The Next button is clicked and &Large is typed in the

Caption Text Box and MnuLarge in the Name Text Box

• When Fill Color menu item is selected, a sub menu with

Red, Green and Blue should Popup. Hence, these
items should be included below the Fill Color item

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Full Menu Editor after adding the Menu
Items to it

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Run-time Menu to Third Level

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Run-time Menu

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Summary

 Designing Menu upto Third Level

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Quiz

1. Which arrow mark is used to create sublevel menu item

while designing menus

A) Left Arrow
B) Right Arrow
C) Top Arrow
D) Bottom arrow

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1. Which special character is used as prefix to Caption of the
Menu item to create a shortcut key?

A) &
B) &&
C) *
D) **

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Frequently Asked Questions

 Explain the process of creating Menus upto third

Level

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Assignment
 Create a Menu upto 4th level

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