Menu Creator 0.7.4

Menu Creator & Menu Extended (+Menu Designer) create dream menu! No code! FREE! Menu Creator (Add-in) and Menu Extended (activeX) will expand your creativity allowing you to create advanced dream menus!
Features for menu styles:
- Office 97-2000
- Button 3D
- Office XP
- Office 2003
- custom separator
- gradient selection bar
For EACH ITEM you can add:
- image
- description
- custom color
For EACH POPUP menu:
- image background
- side-bar with:
- text + image
- aligned/rotated text
- gradient colors
Note that all the menu style is customizable!
The final touch is give by the Menu Designer (MenuExtended)!
While you run your program, you can open the Menu Designer where you can set ALL properties easy, simply with click.
With Menu Creator, Menu Extended & Menu Designer you can transform your application and give, to end user, programs with a fantastic look!
Finally, if you want, you can provide the Menu Designer at yours end users. Therefore their can customize the menu as like their want!
Main features:
- Support for menu array: when you start or set the item as a menu array, all next item will be indexed automatically.
- Shortcut property: you can read and set shortcuts for each menu item
- More languages: You may use Menu Creator in your language. Choose your preferred language from Italian, English , French, Deutsch, ecc..
If there not your language you can add it, is it a simple text file (LNG).
- Easy and quick: you dont have to write any line of code! You do not believe to us ? Try it!!!
Create your fantastic menus in 5 simple steps:
- open your project
- add a ImageControl with the images you want to use in your menu
- start Menu Creator
- build your menu with your Images and Descriptions
- click to Make Menu button to build the menu
Now try and see the result: Run your project (press F5) youll get your very own menu with images, gradient selection bar, and many others features available from MenuExtended.dll (image background, sidebar with text, etc.)
Create a new menu or Import a existing menu from you form: either Form or MDIForm. You can:
- Import a menu from you form
- Add your images
- Save as menu templates (mct file)
- Reload later this menu on another project
- Fully manage menu items: with the arrow buttons, you can move a item as you want (up, down, left, right) to create your menu structure.
- AutoNaming (optional): build automatically the Name property based on Caption property and position of the item. The figure show that the item New (selected) and that the Name property is mnuFileNew (New is part of File menu)
- Templates: you can save, and reload later, your menu structures, so you dont have to re-create each time your menu. You can load a saved menu structure, modify and re-save with another file name.
You can set the templates folder you prefer; default is the Visual Basic Templates folder (normally C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual StudioVB98Templates).
- Automatic building of menu and code: once you have created your menu with Menu Creator simply click on Make Menu button and in your project will be build the menu (based on the structure you have set) and all the need code will be automatically added (declarations, functions call, etc.) and a refer to MenuExtended.dll. Remeber: the core of all is MenuExtended, not Menu Creator!
- Automatic reloading last menu session (optional): You can reload automatically the last menu you have worked on during the last Menu Creator session. Menu Creator asks first whether to load it.
- Capture menu from external executable or library file (EXE/DLL) and from external VB Forms (FRM):
Is it quickly and easy to capture menu from any EXE/DLL or RM file, then you can modify the whole menu structure, last add or update the menu in your form.
- Now you have access to ALL item properties: you can change or set Checked, Enabled, Visible and WindowList properties (just like the standard menu editor).
- Favorites menu: you can save your favorites menu structure, and reload them with a simple click!
- Choose to make normal or enhanced menu:
Now you can use MC to make and manage normal menu (without image, description, etc.) this mean that you havent to use MenuExtended.dll for subclassing menu.
- The new option Prepare project for MenuExtended.dll (menu Options) allow you to choose to make a normal VB menu, or a enhanced menu for MenuExtended.