@ 2042third - you’re also welcome to look at this.
I made a test project awhile back, it’s basically just turning the MenusDemo from DemoRunner into a VST3 plugin. So you have a plugin with a menubar inside the window. I was testing out how to implement submenus as well, so there are are a few in there with items that don’t do anything.
MenusDemoPlugin.zip (35.9 KB)
EDIT: or this one, if you’re making a GUI App. I made this to show a bug to the JUCE team, but again it’s basically the MenusDemo, extracted and made into a GUI App:
MenusDemoFlash.zip (18.5 KB)
2nd EDIT: caveat: I never ran either of these on Windows, I mainly work on Mac first. But I don’t see why they wouldn’t work, you may need to add VS Exporters in Projucer.