VB6 Menus

How do i make my menu on my first form be on all of my other forms

 

There are two ways to do this. #1 is to make your app MDI (multi document interface). To do this, you add an MDIForm to your app and change the MDIChild property on all your other forms to True. Then, you just build your menus on the MDI form.

The other way (probably more what you are looking for) is to build the menus dynamically at run time. You STILL have to create a control array of menus on each form, but you can have one routine to build the menus and assign the captions. Look in VB Help under Menus, adding at runtime and the notepad SDI application sample that comes with VB for good examples.

 

Sorry, I forgot that there is another option that might work best for you. Create a form in VB, put the menus on it that you want. If the code behind your menus needs to be the same for every form, then you can code that too. Then save the form to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\Template\Forms (assuming that you installed visual studio to the default directory.) You should save the form with a file name that will be easy for you to identify, (e.g. My Menu Form.frm)

Now, add a new form to your project. The "Add Form" dialog box will pop up, and the form you just saved should be on the list. Click on that, and the new form will be added with the menus and code that you just saved.