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Menu Glyphs
Icons for menu entries
Issue: 4.6 (July/August 2006)
Author: Christian Schmitz, cSchmitz-at-rbdeveloper.com
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Starting Page Number: 42
RBD Number: 4617
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Recently a reader asked me how to get an icon onto the menubar for a menu entry on Windows. Sadly, there is no direct way in REALbasic to do this. Even plugins can't always help. So this article will show you how to do menu icons in REALbasic 5.5 to 2006r2.
Size of menu icons?
The first question to ask is how big the icons need to be. For Windows XP it should be 13 by 13 pixels. But instead of hard coding it, we want to ask the system for the required size. Different themes may use different sizes. The GetSystemMetrics function will do this. In the documentation for this function, we find the C declaration:
int GetSystemMetrics(int nIndex);
As this function only takes one integer in and one out, the REALbasic declare code is quite easy. From the documentation we know it is in the user32 dll so the declare looks like this:
Declare Function GetSystemMetrics Lib "user32" (what As Integer) As Integer
There is a long list of values you can use with this function, but the only two we need are SM_CXMENUCHECK with the value 71 and SM_CYMENUCHECK with the value 72. Those constants are defined in winuser.h in the Windows SDK. We call the function like this:
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