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Menu Editor

Use the menu editor to create custom menus for each form of your application. After selecting the form for which you want to create menus, press Ctrl+E or use the "Menu Editor" command in the "Tools" menu.

New Menu
Creates a new menu.

New Item
Creates a new item for the selected menu.

Remove
Deletes the selected menu or menu item.

Moves the selected menu item upwards in the selected menu.

Moves the selected menu item downwars in the selected menu.

Moves the selected menu to the left.

Moves the selected menu to the right.

Caption
Caption of menu or menu item.

Name
Menu item name. This name is used in your code to intercept a click on the menu item and must therefore be a unique identifier respecting the naming conventions.

Shortcut
This letter, displayed to the right of the item caption, allows the user to simulate a click using the Graffiti writing zone. You should not give several items the same shortcut.

Menu item separator
Item separator. When this checkbox is checked the selected item is replaced by a line which serves as a separator.

Handling the Click event allows you to define the behavior of your application when the user selects a menu item. Menus and menu items must be defined at design time. Due to Palm OS limitations, it is not possible to dynamically modify a menu.