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I have to make a paint-like program in borland c++ as an assigmnet, I want to have controls in my menus(i.e an edit box). how is this done?

There's no standard way of doing this, as far as I can tell. The few programs you're likely to see it in (typically Microsoft Office apps) would be using custom menu bars.

If this is a school assignment, creating a custom menu bar control is probably more effort than you really want to put into it.

Why do you need an edit control in a menu?

I was going to make a line width box similar to the one in fireworks, but if it is to much time an effert then I'll just make with a simple combobox with the widths needed.

Thanks anyway.