Displaying the Menu Editor

To display the Menu Editor

• Choose Menu Editor from Tools Menu or
• Click the Menu Editor button on the toolbar or
• Click the form and press Ctrl + E.

Now we must add the following menus to the menu bar.

• Main
• Color
• Border
• Message

We will also add accelerator keys to the menu bar options so that the user can select a menu bar option using the keyboard. When you add items to the Menu Editor, those items either appear on the application's menu bar or on a pull down menu depending on how you specify the values. Now let's add the menus to our application.

• Type &Main for the caption field. The ampersand indicates that M will be the accelerator key.
• Press Tab to move to the Name Field. Type mnuMain for the name field.

Use a consistent naming convention for menu names. Begin all menu names with the prefix mnu.

• Leave all the other fields and click the Next button.
• Type &Color for the next menubar option and type mnuColor for the name. Click the Next button to add the next item.
• Type &Border for the next menubar option and type mnuBorder for the name. Click the Next button to add the next item.
• Type M&essage for the next menubar option and type mnuMessage for the name.

Your Menu Editor should look like the one shown in the following figure:

Figure 6.5