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--- creating_20a_20menu_20from_20a_20resource [2018/03/31 13:19] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ creating_20a_20menu_20from_20a_20resource [2024/01/05 00:22] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 =====Creating a menu from a resource=====
-//by Jon Ripley, June 2006//\\ \\  The normal method of creating a menu is to use the Windows API functions "CreateMenu", "CreatePopupMenu" and "AppendMenu" to create a menu structure:\\
+//by Jon Ripley, June 2006//\\ \\  The normal method of creating a menu is to use the Windows API functions "CreateMenu", "CreatePopupMenu" and "AppendMenu" to create a menu structure:
+<code bb4w>
         SYS "CreatePopupMenu" TO m_file%
         SYS "AppendMenu", m_file%, 0, 100, "&New"+CHR$9+"Ctrl+N"
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         SYS "SetMenu", @hwnd%, m_main%
         SYS "DrawMenuBar", @hwnd%
-\\  However there may be circumstances when the menu has already been designed and its template is contained as a //resource// within a DLL or EXE file. In that case you can create the menu in your program using the resource data. The code example below creates a menu from the resource data for the BB4W IDE menu (in BBCWIN.EXE or BBCWDEM.EXE):\\
+</code>
+However there may be circumstances when the menu has already been designed and its template is contained as a //resource// within a DLL or EXE file. In that case you can create the menu in your program using the resource data. The code example below creates a menu from the resource data for the BB4W IDE menu (in BBCWIN.EXE or BBCWDEM.EXE):
+<code bb4w>
         REM Acquire handle to BBCWIN.EXE or BBCWDEM.EXE
         SYS "GetModuleHandle", 0 TO hmod%
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         REM Destroy the menu and free used memory
         SYS "DestroyMenu", hmenu% TO ret%
-Naturally this code will only run within the **BB4W IDE**, because if compiled to an executable file the menu resource data will not be present.\\ \\  To load the menu resource data from a different file (for example a DLL) then replace the call to "GetModuleHandle" with a call to "LoadLibrary" as follows:\\
+</code>
+Naturally this code will only run within the **BB4W IDE**, because if compiled to an executable file the menu resource data will not be present.\\ \\  To load the menu resource data from a different file (for example a DLL) then replace the call to "GetModuleHandle" with a call to "LoadLibrary" as follows:
+<code bb4w>
         SYS "LoadLibrary", "EXAMPLE.DLL" TO hmod%
+</code>