Users Guide
Working with Windows

Table of Contents

Menus and menu items

Using the Menu painter

Menu painter views

Menu styles

Building a new menu

Creating a new menu

Working with menu items

Saving the menu

Defining the appearance and behavior of menu items

Setting General properties for menu items

Setting menu style properties for contemporary menus

Setting menu item style properties

Providing toolbars

How toolbars work

Adding toolbars to a window

Selecting a toolbar style

Setting toolbar properties

Setting toolbar properties in the Window painter

Setting toolbar properties in the Application painter

Writing scripts for menu items

Menu item events

Using functions and variables

Referring to objects in your application

Using inheritance to build a menu

Using the inherited information

Inserting menu items in a descendant menu

Using menus in your applications

Adding a menu bar to a window

Displaying pop-up menus