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Hi, I've made this nice menu because I like this kind of things in other programs.

http://www.freewebtown.com/tbiu/RbMenu.zip

Hope you will like it. It's tested only on WinXP so the icons would (possibly will) look ugly on older OS because of the XP transparency used.

There's a TODO thing: the menus should dymically change while moving the cursor when activated. Hope you will help me to do this.
All improvements are welcome.

This is exactly the same what I'm going to do with my own Office-style menus (search the forums for the code if interested). Remember though, that with toolbar/rebar-type menus you have to implement keyboard navigation of menus, which is a bit problematic. Here are the keys that should be implemented:

F10 -- for activating the menu.
Left and right arrows -- for moving between main item and menu sub-items.
Up and down arrows -- for moving between menu sub-items, down arrow also for activating a particular main item in the menu.
Alt-key -- for activating underscores.
Enter -- for selecting the current menu item, also expands sub-items in the menu.
Esc -- for cancelling keyboard navigation.

Implementing keyboard navigation is absolutely essential, because not everyone uses a mouse. And some people find it easier to navigate by keyboard even if they have a mouse.

Here is an article (MSDN) that explains keyboard navigation in toolbar/rebar -menus. Hope it helps.