Editor: VLMenuPlus is a drop-in menu enhancer for your applications. With VLMenuPlus you don't have to change the way you have used menus till now. Simply drop this control on the main form of your application and run the application. The menus will auto-magically be transformed ... without need of writing even a single line of code.
# Supports a range of development environments
VLMenuPlus Version 5, support many development environments. You can use it to enhance application menus in VB.Net, C#.Net, VB classic, VC++ and Delphi. If you are using any other development environment, please contact our technical support for assistance in using VLMenuPlus in your choice of development tool.
# Complete menu color customization using VLMenuPlus Menu item and background bitmap support
VLMenuPlus provides an option to add icons next to menu items. It, in fact, automatically adds icons next to a large number of commonly used menu items like Open, Close, Cut, Copy, etc. The full list of menu captions for which it provides automatic bitmap support is available in the online help.
VLMenuPlus provides this feature for many European and far-eastern languages.
You can select from five sets of icons (including Office 2003 and Office XP styled icons) for your menus, or if you want, you can specify your own set of icons for your application menus.
While talking of bitmaps, let us tell you that you can have fancy backgrounds for menus by specifying a bitmap to be drawn in the popup menu background.
Many applications provide Brief help messages in the status bar as the cursor moves over menu items. Visual Basic menus do not provide any event where you can add this feature. VLMenuPlus, not only provides this event, it can automatically Detect the status bar in your application and start displaying help messages for a large number of commonly used menu captions. The full list of menu captions for which it provides automatic help display is available in the online help.
