TBmpMenu is a freeware OWL class that shows bitmaps on the left side
of menus like MS Office 97.

Basically, menus with bitmaps was created to let the user see visually
the correspondence of a menu item and a toolbar button, so that he can
learn easily the meanings of sometime strange button drawing.

So I wrote the TBmpMenu class, which takes care with some help from
TDecoratedFrame (for SDI applications) or TDecoratedMDIFrame
(for MDI applications) of menu remapping and drawing.

Some of the features of TBmpMenu are:
- remap menus, popup menus and system menus
- draw simple and bitmapped checked/unchecked menu items
- draw radio dot checked menu items
- draw default menu items with bold text
- support the system wide menu fonts and menu colors
- change menu item text on the fly
- draw main menu items recessed (optional)
- support tooltips with accelerator keys

NOTE: TBmpMenu use the Win32 API and can't work with Windows 3.11

The default size of the bitmaps are 19 x 17 pixel (Microsoft style).
If you use 20 x 20 pixel (default Borland size), 
change the constant in the source.

Hint: Tooltips are delimited to 50 characters by original OWL. TBmpMenu
cut the tooltip, if a tooltip with accelerator key reach this limit.

This package contains the TBmpMenu soure and two examples
- The MDI sample shows how to:
  - use the TBmpMenu class in an MDI application
  - get a bitmap popup menu in editor windows
  - support the the recent file list
- The SDI sample shows how to:
  - use the TBmpMenu class in an SDI application

Tested with Borland C++ 5.02, OWL 5.02 under Windows NT 4.0 SP3 but
I think the class would work with Windows 95 too. 

Please send me bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, etc., and
I'll try to keep this in next versions:
  EMail: dieter.windau@usa.net
  Web:   http://www.members.aol.com/SoftEngage

Happy coding.

HISTORY

1.1  10.07.98
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- Add support for Tooltips with accelerator keys. New Functions:
  - PreGetHintText()
  - IsWithAccel()
  - SetWithAccel()
- Add module in constructor to load bitmaps
- Bugfixes:
  - Delete search for '\a' character, because is not necassary

1.0  17.06.98
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Basic version