Menu Items

A menu item can be a menu option that results in an action, a reference to another menu, such as a cascaded menu or included menu, or a separator for grouping items. Menu items have associated triggers in which to program the conditions under which they are displayed and the action they perform.

You can define the following types of menu item:

Types of Menu Items

Item type	Available In	Triggers	Description
Menu Option	Drop-down Pop-up	preDisplay select	Performs an action, such as activating a form or structure editor function.
Dynamic Menu	Drop-down Pop-up	preDisplay select	Placeholder where additional menu items can be inserted at runtime by $inlinemenu ProcScript statements in the preDisplay trigger.
Cascaded Menu	Drop-down Pop-up	preDisplay	References a drop-down menu, displaying its contents as a separate menu cascading from the current menu. Use a cascading menu to include additional items in a menu that would otherwise cause the menu to be too long. For usability, don't define more than three levels of cascading menus.
Included Menu	Drop-down Pop-up	None	References a drop-down menu, copying its contents into the current menu during compilation. Use included menus to avoid duplicating menu item definitions.
Separator	Drop-down Pop-up	preDisplay	Horizontal dividing line used to separate groups of related items.
Drop-down Menu	Menu Bar	preDisplay	References a drop-down menu.
Right Align Marker	Menu Bar	preDisplay	Causes subsequent items to be displayed on the right side of the application window. Only one of these should or needs to be present in a menu bar.

Caution: Do not specify a cascading menu item or an included menu item to refer to the menu itself or to a menu above this menu in the menu structure. Doing so creates a circular definition that can result in application errors.

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