Menus and Toolbars for PowerBuilder .NET Applications

Adding customized menus and toolbars to your applications makes it easy and intuitive for your users to select commands and options.

• Menus and Menu Items
  Menus are lists of related commands or options that a user can select in the currently active window. Each choice in a menu is called a menu item.
• Menu Painter in PowerBuilder .NET
  The Menu painter has several views where you can specify menu items and how they look and behave. You can also customize the style of a toolbar associated with a menu.
• Building a New Menu in PowerBuilder .NET
  You can build menus that are not based on existing menus.
• Menu Item Appearance and Behavior in PowerBuilder .NET
  By setting menu properties, you can customize the display of menus in applications that you create with PowerBuilder.
• Toolbars for Applications
  To make your application easier to use, add toolbars with buttons as shortcuts for menu items.
• Writing Scripts for Menu Items
  Scripts specify what happens when users select a menu item.
• Using Inheritance to Build a Menu
  Build a menu that inherits its style, events, functions, structures, variables, and scripts from an existing menu to save coding time. All you have to do is modify the descendant object to meet the requirements of the current situation.
• Menus in Your PowerBuilder .NET Applications
  You can use menus as the window menu bar or as pop-up menus.