If the item contains no sub  menu, the Popup property retrieves False. If the Popup retrieves True, the SubMenu property gets the item's submenu. Use the Add method to insert a sub menu. Use the Popup property to convert on the fly a regular item to a popup item. Use the ShowDown property to specify whether the popup menu should show up or down.

The following VB sample shows adds items to a menu of popup type:

With ExMenu1.Items
    Dim i As Item
    Set i = .Add("Popup", , 1234)
    i.Popup = True
    With i.SubMenu
        .Add("Child").Image = 1
    End With
End With
ExMenu1.Refresh

The following C++ sample adds items to a menu of popup type:

COleVariant vtMissing; V_VT( &vtMissing ) = VT_ERROR;
CItem item = m_menu.GetItems().Add( "Popup", vtMissing, COleVariant( (long)1234 ) );
item.SetPopup( TRUE );
item.GetSubMenu().Add( "Child 1", vtMissing , vtMissing ).SetImage( 1 );
m_menu.Refresh();

The following VB.NET sample adds items to a menu of popup type:

With AxExMenu1.Items
    Dim i As EXMENULib.item = .Add("Popup", , 1234)
    i.Popup = True
    With i.SubMenu
        .Add("Child").Image = 1
    End With
End With
AxExMenu1.CtlRefresh()

The following C# sample adds items to a menu of popup type:

EXMENULib.item item = axExMenu1.Items.Add("Popup",null, 1234);
item.Popup = true;
EXMENULib.Menu subMenu = item.SubMenu;
subMenu.Add("Child 1", null, null).Image = 1;
axExMenu1.CtlRefresh();

The following VFP sample adds items to a menu of popup type:

With thisform.ExMenu1.Items
    with .Add("Popup", , 1234)
    .Popup = .t.
	    With .SubMenu
	        .Add("Child").Image = 1
	    EndWith
	endwith
EndWith
thisform.ExMenu1.Object.Refresh