The system can use a bitmap instead of a text string to display a menu item. To use a bitmap, you must set the MFT_BITMAP flag for the menu item and specify the handle to the bitmap that the system should display for the menu item. This section describes how to set the MFT_BITMAP flag and retrieve the handle to a bitmap.
Applications written for 16-bit versions of Windows can set the MF_BITMAP flag with the old menu functions.