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Add Menu and MenuItem in your code
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Imports System.IO
Imports System.Windows.Forms
public class MenuAddDynamically
public Shared Sub Main
Application.Run(New Form1)
End Sub
End class
Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Private ourMenu As MainMenu
Private ourTop As MenuItem
Private WithEvents ourItem As MenuItem
Private Sub menuClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
MessageBox.Show("You clicked " & sender.text & ".", _
"Interactive Menu Creator!")
End Sub
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
End Sub
'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub
Friend WithEvents btnMainMenu As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents GroupBox1 As System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
Friend WithEvents btnTopMnu As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents GroupBox2 As System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
Friend WithEvents btnAddItem As System.Windows.Forms.Button
Friend WithEvents lstTopLevel As System.Windows.Forms.ListBox
Friend WithEvents Label5 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
Friend WithEvents txtItemText As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Friend WithEvents txtTopLevel As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer
'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Me.btnMainMenu = New System.Windows.Forms.Button()
Me.GroupBox1 = New System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox()
Me.txtTopLevel = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox()
Me.btnTopMnu = New System.Windows.Forms.Button()
Me.GroupBox2 = New System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox()
Me.Label5 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
Me.lstTopLevel = New System.Windows.Forms.ListBox()
Me.btnAddItem = New System.Windows.Forms.Button()
Me.txtItemText = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox()
Me.GroupBox1.SuspendLayout()
Me.GroupBox2.SuspendLayout()
Me.SuspendLayout()
'
'btnMainMenu
'
Me.btnMainMenu.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(40, 16)
Me.btnMainMenu.Name = "btnMainMenu"
Me.btnMainMenu.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(128, 40)
Me.btnMainMenu.TabIndex = 0
Me.btnMainMenu.Text = "Create the MainMenu"
'
'GroupBox1
'
Me.GroupBox1.Controls.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.Control() {Me.txtTopLevel, Me.btnTopMnu})
Me.GroupBox1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(40, 80)
Me.GroupBox1.Name = "GroupBox1"
Me.GroupBox1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(344, 104)
Me.GroupBox1.TabIndex = 1
Me.GroupBox1.TabStop = False
Me.GroupBox1.Text = "Add top-level Menu text:"
'
'txtTopLevel
'
Me.txtTopLevel.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(24, 24)
Me.txtTopLevel.Name = "txtTopLevel"
Me.txtTopLevel.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(272, 20)
Me.txtTopLevel.TabIndex = 5
Me.txtTopLevel.Text = ""
'
'btnTopMnu
'
Me.btnTopMnu.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(200, 64)
Me.btnTopMnu.Name = "btnTopMnu"
Me.btnTopMnu.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(88, 24)
Me.btnTopMnu.TabIndex = 4
Me.btnTopMnu.Text = "Make it so!"
'
'GroupBox2
'
Me.GroupBox2.Controls.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.Control() {Me.Label5, Me.lstTopLevel, Me.btnAddItem, Me.txtItemText})
Me.GroupBox2.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(40, 216)
Me.GroupBox2.Name = "GroupBox2"
Me.GroupBox2.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(344, 248)
Me.GroupBox2.TabIndex = 2
Me.GroupBox2.TabStop = False
Me.GroupBox2.Text = "Add menu item text:"
'
'Label5
'
Me.Label5.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(32, 64)
Me.Label5.Name = "Label5"
Me.Label5.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(256, 16)
Me.Label5.TabIndex = 6
Me.Label5.Text = "Select menu the item goes on:"
'
'lstTopLevel
'
Me.lstTopLevel.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(16, 88)
Me.lstTopLevel.Name = "lstTopLevel"
Me.lstTopLevel.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(288, 108)
Me.lstTopLevel.TabIndex = 5
'
'btnAddItem
'
Me.btnAddItem.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(216, 208)
Me.btnAddItem.Name = "btnAddItem"
Me.btnAddItem.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(88, 24)
Me.btnAddItem.TabIndex = 4
Me.btnAddItem.Text = "Add Item!"
'
'txtItemText
'
Me.txtItemText.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(56, 32)
Me.txtItemText.Name = "txtItemText"
Me.txtItemText.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(200, 20)
Me.txtItemText.TabIndex = 3
Me.txtItemText.Text = ""
'
'Form1
'
Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(440, 510)
Me.Controls.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.Control() {Me.GroupBox2, Me.GroupBox1, Me.btnMainMenu})
Me.Name = "Form1"
Me.Text = "Interactive menu creator"
Me.GroupBox1.ResumeLayout(False)
Me.GroupBox2.ResumeLayout(False)
Me.ResumeLayout(False)
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub btnMainMenu_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnMainMenu.Click
ourMenu = New MainMenu()
Me.Menu = ourMenu
End Sub
Private Sub btnTopMnu_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnTopMnu.Click
Dim itemString As String = txtTopLevel.Text
ourTop = New MenuItem(itemString)
ourMenu.MenuItems.Add(ourTop)
lstTopLevel.Items.Add(itemString)
End Sub
Private Sub btnAddItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAddItem.Click
Dim i As Integer
i = 0
ourItem = New MenuItem(txtItemText.Text, New System.EventHandler (AddressOf Me.menuClick))
ourMenu.MenuItems(i).MenuItems.Add(ourItem)
End Sub
End Class
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