Creating a Menu
Users can create new menus on the menu bar, as per the project requirements, by making use of the available built in menus. Below are the steps that are used for creating a menu:
Login to Javra IDE for Progress Application.
Select the menu titled as ‘X/E-Files’ and click on ‘XE Developer Studio’ link in the menu list, as shown in Figure below:
XE Developer Studio shall be displayed on the screen, and on the left hand side toolbar you will find Menu structure.
Right click ‘X/E-files : xfiles’, and click on ‘New Menu’ as shown in Figure below:
A pop-up prompting for Menu name shall be displayed in the XE Developer Studio as shown in Figure below:
Type in desired unique menu name and click Done.
Click Reload workspace as shown in the figure below and the new menu shall appear after that.
The new custom Menu named as ‘My_Menu’ is now created. A menu record is displayed in the menu line, as shown in the figure below:
Following is a short description of the labels of the Right/ properties panel of Menu
| Labels | Description | ||||||||||
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| Menu | This field displays the Parent item/entry in menu tree. | ||||||||||
| Type | Displays a list of Types of the program like menu, folder, toolbar or others, selecting any of these Types the menu is created. | ||||||||||
| Sequence | Ordering of child entry. The sequence determines where to insert the new menu elements. For each menu, submenu or folder the sequence number is required and it must be “unique”. | ||||||||||
| Program | Child entry in menu tree. Shows the name of the Program using which the menu is created. | ||||||||||
| Frontend | There are different frontends (X, Z,*
and !*) where the menu program can be displayed. Here, in this field the frontend is defined as to where this menu program is to be run.
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| Reserved (checkbox) | Select this option if this menu is Javra IDE reserved menu. By clicking this toggle box, the user can make the ‘menu’ reserved. | ||||||||||
| Comment | Any comments the user wants to write about the particular menu can be written here. |
- A program record for this menu will be automatically created in the left panel.