MENUS AND ITS OPTIONS

The menu bar is the standard feature of most Windows applications. The main purpose of the menus
is for easy navigation and control of an application. Some of the most common menu items are File,
Edit, View, Tools, Help and more. Each item on the main menu bar also provides a list of options in
the form of a pull-down menu. When you create a Visual Basic 6 program, you need not include as
many menu items as a full-fledged Windows application. What you need is to include those menu
items that can improve the ease of use by the user. There are two ways to add menus to your
application, using the Visual Basic's Application Wizard and or the menu editor. Visual Basic has two
types of menus, built-in and shortcut.

Built-in Menus:

Built-in menus appear on the menu bar across the top of the Visual Basic window. Each menu
contains commands that relate to the menu name. For example, the Format menu contains commands
used for formatting your form. Some of the commands have submenus that contain more specific
commands. For example, the Toolbars command on the View menu has a submenu that contains the
names of the toolbars and the Customize command. You can use the Customize command to modify
the built-in menus or to add commands to the menu bar.

Shortcut Menus:

Shortcut menus are menus containing frequently used commands that appear when you click the right
mouse button or press SHIFT+F10.

 In VB 6.0 the member contains the following menus;

 Most of the menus got list of menus and submenus. Some menus have shortcuts and some
doesn‘t
MENU OPTIONS:

VB Menu contains the following menus and options listed above;

(I) FILE:

 File menu is an important menu in visual basic.

 In most of the Microsoft office applications this menu is included with various menus
and submenus.
 It contains the following options.

(II) EDIT:

 Edit is another important menu in vb.

 It contains the options like cut, copy, paste, undo and other important options
(III) VIEW:

 View menu is used to view list of tools like toolbox, project window, object, code and
other functions.
 Using view you can display the hidden tools.

(IV) PROJECT:

 With the help of project menu, you can add a new form, MDI form, Module, Class
module, Property page etc...
(V) FORMAT:

 The format is very important menu in vb.

 To correct the order of form, we need to make the alignment, size, spacing etc.… To
be correct.
 Such kind of features are available under Format menu

(VI) DEBUG:

 Error free code is the dream of every programmer, making an error is common while
writing code. To make it correct this debug menu plays a vital role.
(VII) RUN:

 The run menu is used to run the vb. Projects.

 There are two important options comes under run menu they are; start and compile
and start.

(VIII) QUERY:

 Query menu is used to add SQL queries in vb. Project.

(IX) DIAGRAM:

 With the help of diagram menu, we can do the following,

 Creating Visual Basic class diagrams
 Creating UML class diagrams of Visual Basic elements
 Populating class diagrams with Visual Basic elements
 Populating class diagrams with Visual Basic elements based on type

(X) TOOLS:

 Tools menu contains the following options.

(XI) ADD-INS:

 Add-Ins contains two important options such as Visual Data manager and Add-In
Manger

(XII) WINDOW:

 Window menu is for the VB. GUI with the help of window menu, we can format the
IDE
(XIII) HELP:

 In Every good software application, there will be help menu

 The help menu will describe about the application
 VB help menu there will be details about Microsoft Visual Basic