OfficeMenu is an easy-to-use ActiveX control for VB that creates professional Microsoft-style menus without coding. It supports Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and .NET styles, and can give a polished user interface within minutes.
OfficeMenu will enable you to quickly achieve a modern and professional appearance for your software. Plus, the menus will look just like the ones found in many Microsoft programs. On top of that, the menu's colors will automatically change to match Office's colors perfectly, regardless of the windows theme or visual style.
If you're searching for the most authentic emulation of the Office XP and Office 2003 style menus, you can't go wrong with OfficeMenu. It supports the widest variety of image formats than any other custom menu control. You'll also be able to use 32-bit alpha channel icons and PNG images, even on older versions of Windows. This means you can add icons (up to 48x48 in size) to your menus with breathtaking translucency and alpha-blended shadows. Oh, and it also supports GIFs, JPGs, and bitmaps. You can assign icons to all menu items, even those on the menu bar.
Thankfully, the software comes with an easy to use icon selection tool that lets you assign your icon images to menu items quickly, and provides you with a full preview of what your menu will look like. If you don't want to use the property window to assign the icons at design time, you can load them from disk or assign them from an StdPicture object at runtime. This makes it easy to integrate with an ImageList.
OfficeMenu gives you complete control over the appearance of your menus. Its unique font-tagging system lets you apply various styles and colors to individual menu items. You can even create several types of color pickers in your menus. OfficeMenu also supports Unicode text, making it possible to include international characters in your menus. Furthermore, right to left reading support is provided for languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
In summary, with OfficeMenu, you'll get:
- Office XP and .NET Style Menus
- Office 2003 Style Menus
- 32-bit Alpha Channel Icons and PNG Images
- Works with your Existing Menus
- No Coding Necessary
- Large icons up to 48x48.
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