Introduction

A menu bar offers special kind of control that lets the users select options and issue commands. Menus are useful controls because your users already know how to use them. The menu bar appears immediately below the title bar on the form and contains one or more menu titles. The following figure illustrates the elements of a menu interface.

Figure 6.1

Visual Basic makes adding menus simple to your application. You've already seen in chapter 1 that Application wizard enables you to generate a menu bar automatically. The following figure shows the Application wizard screen that generates a menu bar.

Figure 6.2

Menus offer a convenient and consistent way to group commands and an easy way for users to access them.