MenuGroup

A menu group is a container for a drop-down list with one or more menu commands and inbuilt menu groups.

To add a menu group, select it in the Palette view and click on the Menu Bar. The text of the label is set up by the Text property:

Most commonly used Theme and Form Properties:

• text

• toolTip

Inheritance diagram:

Form XML Code

A menu group named "File" with six menu commands and a separator inserted between Menu command and Exit.

<menugroup text="File" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="mg_file">

      <menuitems>

            <menucommand text="Open" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="m_open"/>

            <menucommand text="New" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="m_new"/>

            <menucommand text="Close" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="m_close"/>

            <menucommand text="Save" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="m_save"/>

            <menucommand text="Menu command" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="m_saveAll"/>

            <menuseparator fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="ms_file_1"/>

            <menucommand text="Exit" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="m_exit">

                  <oninvoke type="keyeventhandler">

                        <keyname keyValue="F9"/>

                  </oninvoke>

            </menucommand>

            <menucommand text="Menu command" fieldType="FORM_ONLY" fieldTable="formonly" enable="true" visible="true" identifier="f82"/>

      </menuitems>

</menugroup>

Applying Theme options:

<ElementFilter ElementName="MenuGroup">

    <StyleSheet>

      <DoStyleAction>

        <SetProperty>

          <PropertyPath>

            <PropertyName>Background</PropertyName>

            <PropertyName>FillColor</PropertyName>

          </PropertyPath>

          <PropertyValue type="CustomizedColor" RedColor="255" GreenColor="255" BlueColor="0" Alpha="255" />

        </SetProperty>

      </DoStyleAction>

      <DoStyleAction>

        <ApplyClass Name="uclsMore2" />

      </DoStyleAction>

      <DoStyleAction>

        <SetProperty>

          <PropertyPath>

            <PropertyName>Font</PropertyName>

            <PropertyName>Family</PropertyName>

          </PropertyPath>

          <PropertyValue>

            <Name>MS Gothic</Name>

          </PropertyValue>

        </SetProperty>

      </DoStyleAction>

      <DoStyleAction>

        <SetProperty>

          <PropertyPath>

            <PropertyName>Font</PropertyName>

            <PropertyName>FontSize</PropertyName>

          </PropertyPath>

          <PropertyValue>13</PropertyValue>

        </SetProperty>

      </DoStyleAction>

      <DoStyleAction>

        <SetProperty>

          <PropertyPath>

            <PropertyName>ForeColor</PropertyName>

          </PropertyPath>

          <PropertyValue type="CustomizedColor" RedColor="0" GreenColor="255" BlueColor="255" Alpha="255" />

        </SetProperty>

      </DoStyleAction>

    </StyleSheet>

  </ElementFilter>

Example programs:

Project: theme-demo3-2014