MENU Statement

The MENU statement defines the contents of a menu resource. A menu resource is a collection of information that defines the appearance and function of an application menu. A menu can be used to create an action bar.

The MENU statement has the form:

 ─MENU-menuid──┬────────────┬┬───────────┬──
                 └─loadoption─┘└─memoption─┘

 ────┬────────────┬──────────────────────────
      └──codepage──┘

               ┌─────────────────────┐
                                    │
             ┌──PRESPARAMS─statement─┴┐
 ────BEGIN──┴────────────────────────┴───────
          ┌────────────────────────┐
                                  │
 ────────┬───MENUITEM─statement───┼──END────
          │                        │
          └───SUBMENU─statement────┘

Menu Item Statements
Submenu Statements
Presentation Parameters Statement.

menuid (USHORT)

This is either:

• An integer (or a name that resolves to an integer) in the range of 1 through 65535

• A unique string enclosed in double quote marks
loadoption (LOADOPTION)
The default is LOADONCALL.

SeeResource Load and Memory Options for a description of LOADOPTION.

memoption (MEMOPTION)
The default is MOVEABLE.

See Resource Load and Memory Options for a description of MEMOPTION.

codepage (USHORT)
The code page of the text.
PRESPARAMS statement
A special resource statement used to define presentation parameters. These are discussed in more detail in Presentation Parameters Statement.
MENUITEM statement
A special resource statement used to define the items in the menu. These are discussed in more detail in Menu Item Statements.
SUBMENU statement
A special resource statement used to define a submen. SUBMENU statements are discussed in more detail in Submenu Statements.

Example

Following is an example of a complete MENU statement:

MENU "sample"
BEGIN
 MENUITEM "~Alpha", 100, MIS_TEXT
 SUBMENU  "~Beta", 101, MIS_TEXT
 BEGIN
     MENUITEM "~Green", 200, MIS_TEXT
     MENUITEM "~Blue", 201, MIS_TEXT,MIA_CHECKED
 END
END

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