Overview of Form Menus

Menus allow you to select actions from a list. ATEasy menus allow you to select from a number of procedures defined by the person who created the form. When the menu item is chosen, an event is generated which can be used by the application to perform the action specified in the menu.

Menus require logical organization and grouping. They are contained in a menubar. The menubar appears immediately below the title bar on the form and resides outside the form's client area. It contains one or more menu titles. When you click a menu title, such as File, a menu containing a list of items drops down. Menus can include items, such as New and Exit, separator bars, and submenu titles. They can be formatted as drop-down or "bar" menus, where the choices drop down from the initial menu title, or as "pop-up" menus, where the choices pop up in a box to the side of the menu title. Drop-down menus can have items which in turn lead to pop-up menus. Using the Properties icon , you can change a menu item into a label for a subsidiary pop-up menu.

In the above example, the File, Edit and New are popup menus. Save, Text Document and Picture are menu items.

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