This document provides information on creating and working with menus in Visual Basic 6.0. It explains that menus are an important part of software interfaces and are different from other controls. It provides steps for building a simple menu by filling in fields in the Menu Editor window. The document also discusses important menu item properties like Name, Caption, Checked, Enabled, Shortcut and Visible. It includes code examples that demonstrate changing a form's color by clicking different menu items and toggling a label's visibility based on a menu item's Checked property.

1. MENU’s
-Visual Basic 6.0

2. Menus
 Menus are one of the most important features of a
software product. Every standard software must
have menus. You generally see a menu on top of
a software interface. Menus are controls but
different from the controls in the ToolBox and they
don't work like the other controls. You can drop a
menu on the form from the Menu Editor Window.
Press Ctrl+E to show the Menu Editor Window or
right-click on the form and click Menu Editor. The
Menu Editor Window can also be shown from the
Menu Editor icon of the ToolBar.

3. Building a menu
Building a menu is very simple, you can do it on your own. Simply fill
the Caption and Name field in the Menu Editor Window and click ok to
create it.
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Click the right-arrow button to create a submenu. Click
Next to create the next menu item, and click ok once
you're done editing the menu items.

5. A simple form with menu:

6. Properties of the menu items
 The important properties of the menu items are
Name, Caption, Checked, Enabled, Shortcut and
Visible. As per your programming need, set the
properties either in run-time or in design time. You
can create a shortcut key for a menu item. In
some situations you may want to disable a menu
item, you can acquire it through the Enabled
property.
The menu control exposes only one event, the
Click event.
Example: Make a menu as same as the following
image.

8.  Now write the following code.
 Private Sub mnuBlue_Click()
Form1.BackColor = vbBlue 'Makes the Form blue
End Sub
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Private Sub mnuGreen_Click()
Form1.BackColor = vbGreen 'Makes the form green
End Sub
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Private Sub mnuRed_Click()
Form1.BackColor = vbRed 'Makes the form red
End Sub
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Private Sub mnuWhite_Click()
Form1.BackColor = vbWhite 'Makes the form white
End Sub
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9.  Now run the program and Click on the menu items and see
what happens.
 The Checked property
 Design a form like the output image of the following program.
Create a Help menu and drop a Label control on the form with
the caption 'Help'.
Now write the following code.
 Private Sub mnuShowHelp_Click()
If mnuShowHelp.Checked = True Then
mnuShowHelp.Checked = False
Label2.Visible = False
ElseIf mnuShowHelp.Checked = False Then
mnuShowHelp.Checked = True
Label2.Visible = True
End If
End Sub

10. Output: