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'Forms - How to add Split in Menu

Option Explicit
 
'Add menu to your form and add 4 Sub Menus to that.

Public Type MENUITEMINFO
    cbSize As Long
    fMask As Long
    fType As Long
    fState As Long
    wID As Long
    hSubMenu As Long
    hbmpChecked As Long
    hbmpUnchecked As Long
    dwItemData As Long
    dwTypeData As String
    cch As Long
End Type
Public Declare Function GetMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetMenuItemCount Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetSubMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hMenu As Long, ByVal nPos As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function GetMenuItemInfo Lib "user32" Alias "GetMenuItemInfoA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, _
    ByVal un As Long, ByVal b As Boolean, lpmii As MENUITEMINFO) As Long
Public Declare Function SetMenuItemInfo Lib "user32" Alias "SetMenuItemInfoA" (ByVal hMenu As Long, _
    ByVal uItem As Long, ByVal fByPosition As Long, lpmii As MENUITEMINFO) As Long
Public Const MIIM_STATE = &H1
Public Const MIIM_ID = &H2
Public Const MIIM_SUBMENU = &H4
Public Const MIIM_CHECKMARKS = &H8
Public Const MIIM_TYPE = &H10
Public Const MIIM_DATA = &H20
Public Const MFT_RADIOCHECK = &H200&
Public Const MFT_STRING = &H0&
Public Const RGB_STARTNEWCOLUMNWITHVERTBAR = &H20&
Public Const RGB_STARTNEWCOLUMN = &H40&
Public Const RGB_EMPTY = &H100&
Public Const RGB_VERTICALBARBREAK = &H160&
Public Const RGB_SEPARATOR = &H800&
 
Private Sub Form_Load()
    Dim r As Long, hSubMenu As Long, mnuItemCount As Long
    Dim mInfo As MENUITEMINFO
    hSubMenu = GetSubMenu(GetMenu(Me.hwnd), 0)
    mnuItemCount = GetMenuItemCount(hSubMenu)
    mInfo.cbSize = Len(mInfo)
    mInfo.fMask = MIIM_TYPE
    mInfo.fType = MFT_STRING
    mInfo.dwTypeData = Space$(256)
    mInfo.cch = Len(mInfo.dwTypeData)
    r = GetMenuItemInfo(hSubMenu, 1, True, mInfo)
    mInfo.fType = RGB_STARTNEWCOLUMNWITHVERTBAR
    mInfo.fMask = MIIM_TYPE
    r = SetMenuItemInfo(hSubMenu, 1, True, mInfo)
End Sub