Menu Editor

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The latest version of this topic can be found at Menu Editor.

The latest version of this topic can be found at Menu Editor.

Menus allow you to arrange commands in a logical and easy-to-find fashion. With the Menu editor, you can create and edit menus by working directly with a menu bar that closely resembles the one in your finished application.

For Visual C++ projects, you can use the Menu editor to:

• Create Menus

• Insert a New Menu Between Existing Menus

• Create a Menu Command

• Create a Submenu Menu

• Select Menus and Menu Commands

• Move and Copy Menus and Menu Commands

• Create Pop-up Menus

• Connect a Pop-Up Menu to Your Application

• View a Menu Resource as a Pop-up Menu

• Associate a Menu Command with an Accelerator Key

• Associate a Menu Command with Status Bar Text

• Assigning Access Keys to Menu Commands

• Change Menu Command Properties

  Tip
  While using the Menu editor, in many instances, you can click the right mouse button to display a pop-up menu of frequently used commands. The commands available depend on what the pointer is pointing to.

  Note
  For Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) programs and ATL programs, you can use Code Wizards to hook menu commands to code. For more information, see Adding an Event.

For information on adding resources to managed projects, please see Resources in Applications in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide. For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resources strings to properties, see Walkthrough: Localizing Windows Forms and Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET.

Win32

Working with Resource Files
Resource Editors
User-Interface Objects and Command IDs
Menus
Menus