Mainmenu disabled - Why

[Anand Ganesh]

Hi All,

I am trying to create a control - .dll file.

In the toolbox the MainMenu tool is disabled.

What should I do to invoke it?

Why is it disbaled?

If I want to use a control with its own menu systems, how to do it?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks
Anand Ganesh

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Anand,
The MainMenu object can only be placed on a Form object. As only a Form can
have a MainMenu.

You can place ContextMenus on controls.

I'm not sure how you would get the menu to be displayed, but you could
consider deriving from Menu or MainMenu to create a 'MainMenu' that is
displayed on controls.

Within your code, you are free to create any kind of menu object you want.
Showing it may be a different store. For a plugin architecture I am working
on, I am going to return a 'menu' object that the main frame with merge with
its menus...

Hope this helps
Jay

"Anand Ganesh" <an**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I am trying to create a control - .dll file.

In the toolbox the MainMenu tool is disabled.

What should I do to invoke it?

Why is it disbaled?

If I want to use a control with its own menu systems, how to do it?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks
Anand Ganesh

[Anand Ganesh]

Thanks for the reply Jay. Yes your mail did help.

Thanks
Anand

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja********@email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:Ob****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Anand,
The MainMenu object can only be placed on a Form object. As only a Form can have a MainMenu.

You can place ContextMenus on controls.

I'm not sure how you would get the menu to be displayed, but you could
consider deriving from Menu or MainMenu to create a 'MainMenu' that is
displayed on controls.

Within your code, you are free to create any kind of menu object you want.
Showing it may be a different store. For a plugin architecture I am working on, I am going to return a 'menu' object that the main frame with merge with its menus...

Hope this helps
Jay

"Anand Ganesh" <an**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u$**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi All,

I am trying to create a control - .dll file.

In the toolbox the MainMenu tool is disabled.

What should I do to invoke it?

Why is it disbaled?

If I want to use a control with its own menu systems, how to do it?

Thanks for the help.

Thanks
Anand Ganesh