Introduction to menus

Menu bars and popup menus are created at design time by the Menu Editor within the Forms Designer. As menus and menu options are created new objects for each menu and option are also created. For example, lets say a menu called Menu1 is created that has a "File" menu containing the options "Open", "Save", and "Close". Once the menu is created KCML will automatically create the control Menu1 which is then visible in the Object Browser, Control List. KCML will also create objects for each menu option, in this case the objects File, FileOpen, FileSave and FileClose are created. These objects names can then be used with the various menu properties and event handlers. If a menu has a sub-menu, for example, if the "File" menu has a sub menu called "Save As" that has two options called "Data" and "ASCII" then the object names FileSaveAs, FileSaveAsData, and FileSaveAsASCII would be created.