Allow adding icon to Menu and MenuItem

[eugenesvk]

So you could have menu items like this

Also, is it possible to just add text to that empty area? As emoji icon could serve the purpose of a real image

[nickbeth]

Hey, I wrote some extension methods for native-windows-gui for my app, and that includes a function to set a bitmap to a menu item. Here you can find the implementation, you're free to use it in your project as long as you respect the MIT license ;)

You might need to modify it a little as I'm using the windows-sys crate for the Windows calls and you might want to use winapi instead, but it should take very little effort to adjust it.

[eugenesvk]

Thanks! Will take a look (and MIT is one of the most respected licenses ;))

[eugenesvk]

Do you know how to add an icon to the whole menu group, not just its items (for which your extension works fine, thanks!). I've tried a similar thing for the Menu, but there are no bitmap fields/arguments for the MenuInfo equivalent to menuitems?

[nickbeth]

I have no idea myself, you'll have to dive deep into the Win32 API and see if what you want can be done. If there is a way, it can be done as an extension to native-windows-gui objects.

[eugenesvk]

Another look revealed that Menu is constructed the same way as MenuItem, so I can tweak you impl to apply an icon to it as well