Display icons and set the help text for the menu item
EditBy: MenuEx control handles menus into VISUAL BASIC PROJECTS. It allows you to simply display icons and set the help text for the menu items, to set special items such as Sidebars, Headers or Color menu items, giving also the ability to the advanced user to totally handle the menus appearance by custom drawing their contents.

This is a highly customizable, powerful ActiveX control that needs only one line of code to give personal style to your applications, and supports:
Office XP/2003 menu styles
MenuEx control can render menu items simulating The Office XP and the cooler new Office 2003 menu style, providing more features than any other control available in the market, including antialized icons and gradient menu bars in Windows XP.

Windows XP icons
Internal implementation of the enhanced IC ImageList control allows handling of the new, richer image format for icons introduced in Windows XP. This format supports 16 million colors (True Color), does not use a color palette and provides 256 levels of transparency (8-bit alpha channel)

Special items
Any non top-level menu item can be easily converted into a special item such as Header, Sidebar or Color item by just setting the appropriate property.

Custom drawing
MenuEx control provides the appropriate events, to allow developers to manually set a menu items metrics and custom draw its contents. Although this is an advanced feature, it is very easy to be implemented as the control handles the most dificult part, asking for Minimal input and taking care about the Details. you can free download ThumbEx 2.4 now.