SetMenuBar

From Planimate Knowledge Base

Routine Operation that interprets columns in table as depth/name/index/unselectable/selected(tick) and builds a custom menu bar.

SetMenuBar enables a complete modeller customsied menubar, with hierarchic menus, to be built in one step. It superceeds the "ClearCustomMenubar" and "AddListToMenu" routine operations.

The operation takes a 5 column table as a parameter (the table can have more than 5 columns but only the first 5 are used). The name of the columns are not important but the positions must be ordered as follows.

The columns are:

depth

sets the depth of the submenu, 0 = top level

label

the text label for the menu item

id

return id for menu item

unavailable

sets the menu item to unselectable (gray), <>0 = unselectable

tick

places a menu tick next to the menu item

The menu structure is defined by enumerating the menu items in prefix order, for example for:

File	Edit	Tools
New	Cut	Add	--->	Table
Load	Paste			Label
Save		Reset
Quit

depth	label	id	unavailable	tick
0	File	0	0	0
1	New	1	0	0
1	Load	2	0	0
1	Save	3	1	0
1	Quit	4	0	0
0	Edit	0	0	0
1	Cut	5	0	0
1	Paste	6	0	0
0	Tools	0	0	0
1	Add	0	0	0
2	Table	7	0	0
2	Label	8	0	0
1	Reset	9	0	0

You can use a label of '-' as a separator between menu items.

When a menu bar selection is made the system broadcast "_Menu Command" is sent and the item attribute "_command" will contain the index (from the index column) of the selected menu item.

Menu items flagged as unavailable will be shown in Grey and cannot be selected.

Useful when creating end user applications with Planimate.