Menu Customization

FrontPage includes an easy way to extend the menus of the FrontPage Editor and Explorer. This section describes how you can add registry entries that will add new menus or new commands to the Editor or Explorer. These entries can specify the following parameters for your custom menus:

• menu name
  
  
• location (which menu, where on the menu)
  
  
• a command line to invoke when the menu is chosen
  
  
• status bar text to display when the command is selected
  
  
• a WinHelp file and topic number to invoke when context-sensitive help is used
  
  
• whether to create a new top level menu
  
  
• first and last version indicators to allow for version-specific customizations

In addition, the FrontPage Editor includes an additional customization feature which lets you specify HTML that should be automatically inserted into the current page as the insertion point, when the menu command is invoked, without having to write any code at all. This HTML can be specified in two ways:

1. directly in the registry entry
   
   
2. as a reference to an HTML file on disk

The rest of this chapter gives detailed information about the format of the required registry entries for menu customization, and provides numerous examples.