Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress 4GL Reference

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 attribute2	DYNAMIC attribute3	FIRST-CHILD attribute3
HANDLE attribute3	HTML-CHARSET attribute3, 4	LAST-CHILD attribute3
NAME attribute	OWNER attribute	PFCOLOR attribute2
POPUP-ONLY attribute1	PRIVATE-DATA attribute	SENSITIVE attribute
TITLE attribute5	TITLE-DCOLOR attribute2	TYPE attribute3
VISIBLE attribute	WINDOW attribute3
Graphical interfaces only. Character interfaces only. Readable only. Windows only. Can be set only before the menu widget is realized.

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