MENU widget

A menu can be a menu bar or a pop‑up menu. Menu bars contain sub‑menus (specifically, pull‑down menus) and in some environments menu items. Pop‑up menus contain menu items and sub‑menus. You can define a static menu with the DEFINE MENU statement. You can create a dynamic menu with the CREATE widget statement.

The following is a menu bar:

The following is a pop‑up menu:

Attributes

 

DCOLOR attribute	DYNAMIC attribute	FIRST-CHILD attribute
HANDLE attribute	HTML-CHARSET attribute	INSTANTIATING-PROCEDURE attribute
LAST-CHILD attribute	NAME attribute	OWNER attribute
PFCOLOR attribute	POPUP-ONLY attribute	PRIVATE-DATA attribute
SENSITIVE attribute	TITLE attribute	TITLE-DCOLOR attribute
TYPE attribute	VISIBLE attribute	WINDOW attribute

Note:

Color and font attributes for a menu are ignored in Windows.

Methods

The MENU widget does not support any methods.

Events

 

Developer events	MENU-DROP1
1 Supported only when the POPUP-ONLY attribute is set to TRUE and the menu is set as a popup for some other widget.

See also 

CREATE widget statement, DEFINE MENU statement