#Menupop hover how to

Menu items at the extreme left edge are top-level menu items and each level of indentation represents an additional level of nesting.įigure 1: The Menu Editor is used to design menus in VB6.įrom figure 1 we can see that a top-level menu named Popup is selected. Referring to figure one, the menu item that has the focus is the item selected in the list in the bottom half of the Menu Editor dialog. The Menu Editor allows you to create menus by typing the Caption and Name of each menu item and initialize menu items by setting properties for each menu item in the Menu Editor dialog box (see figure 1).

Menus are added to Windows applications using the Tool, Menu Editor (Ctrl+E shortcut) in VB6.

#Menupop hover how to

Demonstrating the context aspect I will borrow from an October 2001 article and demonstrate how to display the popup menu when a user right-clicks over an icon in the System Tray. This article will demonstrate how to create menus using the Menu Editor in VB6 and how to use those menus as popups. There is no menu or popup menu item in VB6 that you can drag from the Toolbox onto a form-thankfully this deficit has been rectified in VB.NET. Implementing popup menus in VB6 is not necessarily intuitive but it isn’t hard either. The users-focus, or context, determines which menu is shown hence the name context menu. Based on the hover location of the mouse, most applications will display a specific menu. Popup menus are generally invoked by right-clicking the mouse button. Popup menus are sometimes referred to as speed menus, right-click menus, or context menus.