Put Bitmaps On Menu
'Add a module to your project (In the menu choose Project ->
Add Module, Then click Open)
'Add 1 Command Button And 2 Picture Boxes to your form.
'Set Picture Boxes AutoSize property to True. Add pictures to the Picture Boxes.
'When the menu will be enabled, the picture in Picture1 will be displayed near him.
'When the menu will be disabled, the picture in Picture2 will be displayed near him.
'The pictures should not be bigger than 13x13.
'Add menu to your form, Add 1 sub menu to the menu and name it MyMenu.
'When you run this program, press on the button to enable\disable menu.
'Insert this code to the module :
Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal _
nPos As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetMenuItemID Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal _
nPos As Long) As Long
Declare Function SetMenuItemBitmaps Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal _
nPosition As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long, ByVal hBitmapUnchecked As Long, ByVal _
hBitmapChecked As Long) As Long
Public Const MF_BITMAP = &H4&
'Insert this code to your form:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
MyMenu.Enabled = Not MyMenu.Enabled
End Sub
Private Sub Form_Load()
'Replace 'Form1' with the name of your form
hMenu& = GetMenu(Form1.hWnd)
'Replace '0' with the menu position. '0' means the first menu from
left.
'If it was the second from left, you should been place there '1'.
hSubMenu& = GetSubMenu(hMenu&, 0)
'Replace '0' with the sub menu position. '0' means the upper sub
menu.
'If it was the second from top, you should been place there '1'.
hID& = GetMenuItemID(hSubMenu&, 0)
SetMenuItemBitmaps hMenu&, hID&, MF_BITMAP, Picture1.Picture, Picture2.Picture
End Sub