Menu Builder and submenues

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Tue Mar 31 15:45:41 EDT 2015


Jacque,
Thanks for the explanation, I had forgotten about what I think are called
tags in menu items.  Do you happen to know offhand if these tags are
supported for all menu type - option, popup, etc?

Pete
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:10 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 3/30/2015 4:47 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> Schedules
>> <tab>A/|A
>> <tab>B/|B
>>
>> I don't see why it has the /
>>
>
> Whatever follows the slash will become the keyboard shortcut. Whatever
> follows the pipe will be the "label" of the menu, so that you can localize
> the menus without changing their actual names. That way the scripts will
> always work but the user will see their own language.
>
> You can omit both the slash and the pipe, and provide only the menu name.
> You can provide a menu name and a slash-shortcut without the pipe. But if
> you want the pipe label, the slash has to be there as a place holder --
> which is the case in your example. The examples indicate no keyboard
> shortcuts but do have labels. But since the labels are the same as the
> names in this case, you could omit both the extra indicators.
>
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