The menu browser

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The menu browser

The menu browser pane displays a list of menus currently available in the menu form.  You can select the menus you wish to view (if you wish to view a sub-set of menus instead of all menus available) by clicking the icon_filterbar button that appears at the top of the browser pane. For more information see the topic on Filtering menus.

 

You can also find menus using the Find edit box and the Find button.  Type in part or all of the menu name that you wish to find and click the Find button.  The current selection will move to the first menu matching the text you entered. Click the Find button again to move to the next menu matching the text, etc.

 

From the browser pane select the menus you wish to view.  The menu's details will then be displayed in the right-hand side of the form.

 

From within the browser pane it is possible to perform the following tasks by right-clicking your mouse and selecting one of the following options from the context menu:

 

Add

Copy

Delete

Save

Reset

Filter

Re-filter

 

See the following image.

 

contextmenus

 

 

 

Add

 

This will create a new menu.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordnew toolbar button.

 

Copy

 

This will create a copy of the current menu.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordcopy toolbar button.

 

Delete

 

This will delete the current menu.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recorddelete toolbar button.

 

Save

 

This will save changes made to the current menu.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordsave toolbar button.

 

Reset

 

This will reset the current menu to the same state as it was when last saved.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordreset toolbar button.

 

Filter

 

This will launch the Menu Filter Dialog.  This is the same as clicking the icon_filterbar button at the top of the browser pane.

 

Re-filter

 

Refreshes the contents of the browser pane.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordrequery toolbar button.