Adding a Pull Down Menu

You can add pull down menus as you build the menu bar or add the menus later. Now we will insert the menu options at their respective locations. Select the Color menu option and click Insert. A blank menu will be inserted above the Color menu. Type Exit in the Caption field and mnuMainExit in the Name field. Now click the Menu Editor's right arrow button. VB adds an ellipses right after the Main menu to indicate that the current item will be a menu option and will not appear on the menu bar.

If a menu has yet another menu coming out of it, you would click the right arrow twice to add two sets of ellipses before the submenu option.

Don't add many submenus levels because it can be confusing.

You've completed the short main menu and its drop down menu.

Now add three menu options to the Color menu: White, Yellow, Red. Similarly, add two menu options to the Border menu: None, 3D Border. Add one menu option to the Message Menu: Menu Application.

Your Menu Editor should look like the one shown in the following figure:

Figure 6.6