Menu Design Window
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Menu Design Window
■ The Menu Design window enables you to create custom menus for your
application and define their properties.
■ To open the Menu Design window, select a form and then choose Menu Design
Window from the Window menu.
■ The Menu Design window contains the following items:
┌────────────────────────── Menu Design Window ──────────────────────────┐
│ ┌─────────────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌────────┐ │
│ Caption: │ │ Tag: │ │ │ Done │ │
│ └─────────────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └────────┘ │
│ ┌─────────────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌────────┐ │
│ CtlName: │ │ Index: │ │ │ Cancel │ │
│ └─────────────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └────────┘ │
│ [ ] Checked [X] Enabled Shortcut Key: [(none) ] ↓ ┌────────┐ │
│ [X] Visible [ ] Separator │ Help │ │
│ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ┌───┐ ╔════════╗ ┌────────┐ ┌────────┐ └────────┘ │
│ │ ◄ │ │ ► │ │ ▲ │ │ ▼ │ ║ Next ║ │ Insert │ │ Delete │ │
│ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ ╚════════╝ └────────┘ └────────┘ │
│ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ ↑ │
│ │ ░ │
│ │ ↓ │
│ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
1. Text box in which you enter the menu or command name that will appear
on your menu bar or in your menu.
• To create a separator bar on your menu, type a single hyphen (-)
here.
• To give the user keyboard access to the menu item, insert an
ampersand (&) before a letter. At run time, this letter is
underlined, and the user can access the menu or command by
pressing Alt+ the letter.
┌──────────────────────┐
Caption: │ │
└──────────────────────┘
2. Text box in which you enter a control name for the menu item. A control
name is an identifier used to access the menu item in code; it does not
appear in a menu.
┌──────────────────────┐
CtlName: │ │
└──────────────────────┘
3. Text box in which you may enter a Tag property value. The Tag property
is used to assign a unique identification string to an object without
affecting any of its other property settings.
┌───────────────┐
Tag:│ │
└───────────────┘
4. Text box in which you assign a numeric value that determines the
control's position within a control array. This position is not related
to the screen position.
┌───────────────┐
Index:│ │
└───────────────┘
5. A check box you select if you want a check mark to appear initially at
the left of a menu item. This is generally used to indicate whether a
toggle option is turned on or off.
[ ] Checked
6. A check box you select if you want the menu item to respond to events
or to be unavailable and appear dimmed on the menu.
[X] Enabled
7. A check box where you indicate whether you want the menu item to
appear on the menu.
[X] Visible
8. A check box where you indicate the value of the menu control's
Separator property. The default value is False for normal menu items.
Check the selection to set the property value to True to display the
menu item as a separator bar. Entering a hyphen (-) as the menu control
caption automatically selects this option.
[X] Separator
9. A drop-down list box from which you can select a shortcut key.
Shortcut Key: [(none) ] ↓
10. A set of outlining keys that allow you to manipulate the selected menu
item.
┌───┐┌───┐ Use these keys to change the level of a menu from a
│ ◄ ││ ► │ higher level to a lower level. You can create up to
└───┘└───┘ six levels of menus. If you do not have a mouse,
press Alt+R (►) or Alt+L (◄).
┌───┐┌───┐ Use these keys to change the position of a menu item
│ ▲ ││ ▼ │ within the same menu level (up or down in the menu
└───┘└───┘ list). If you do not have a mouse, press Alt + up
or down arrow key.
11. List box that displays a hierarchical list of menu items. Lower-level
menu items are indented to indicate their hierarchical position.
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ Root Canal Ctrl+A │
└─────────────────────────────┘
12. The Menu Design window also has the following buttons:
• Next Moves selection to the next line.
• Insert Inserts a line in the list box before the currently selected
line.
• Delete Deletes the currently selected line.
• Done Closes the Menu Design window and applies all menu changes
to the last form you selected. The menu is available at
design time but no events are generated.
• Cancel Closes the Menu Design window and cancels all changes.
• Help Opens help window with information on how to use the
Menu Design window
See: ◄Creating a Menu► ◄Editing a Menu► ◄Menu Design Window Keys►