Put Split In Menu

'Add a module to your project (In the menu choose Project -> Add Module, Then click Open)
'Add menu to your form. Add 4 Sub Menus to this menu.
'Insert this code to the module :

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&

'Insert the following code to your form:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim r As Long
Dim hSubMenu As Long
Dim mnuItemCount As Long
Dim mInfo As MENUITEMINFO
'Replace the '0' below with the menu position. In this case put 0 because the menu that you
'want to put split on it is the first menu from the left. If the menu position was the second from 'the left, you've should been put there '1'.

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)
'Replace the '1' below with your desirable split position. Put '1' to enter the split after
'the first sub menu, put '1' to put it after the second sub menu and so on.
'If you want to put the split before the last sub menu, put there 'mnuItemCount - 1'.
'If you want to put it before 2 sub menus from the last, put there 'mnuItemCount - 1'.
'If you replace the '1' Don't forget to replace also the '1' in the line above the 'End Sub'

r = GetMenuItemInfo(hSubMenu,1, True, mInfo)
mInfo.fType = RGB_STARTNEWCOLUMNWITHVERTBAR
mInfo.fMask = MIIM_TYPE
'If you Replaced the '1' three lines above, replace the '1' below with the same number.
r = SetMenuItemInfo(hSubMenu,1, True, mInfo)
End Sub

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