Menus
Menus are one of the primary ways that users interact with many applications. Each window can display its own menu, although it is more common to find a menu only on the main window. Each window can also display a context menu, if the programmer so chooses. A context menu is one that is displayed when the user right-clicks with the mouse to display a popup menu.
MainMenu Control
The MainMenu control can be used to design, display, and manage a menu that is attached to the top of the client area of the window. We demonstrate the use of menus by building a new version of the HotelAdmin program we saw in the previous chapter. In this example, named HotelAdmin2, we have the following main menu structure:
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