Overview of Item Types

Menuitem Items

Menutem items are widgets that are elements of pull-down or pop-up menus. When they are a member of a menu, they can be activated by moving the mouse over them and letting go. When a menuitem is activated, an associated script will be fired. Menuitems are created with widget commands of the following form:

pathName create menuitem [option value option value ...]
Menuitems are one of several widgets that are designed to mirror the functionality and usage of the standard widgets in Java's Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT). When menuitems are created, they automatically get the tag "MenuItem". Menuitems have default event handlers which define their behavior. These event handlers are defined on the tag "MenuItem" for the "Run" event mode. See the section on Default Bindings for more details about the event bindings.

The following options are supported for menuitems:

-command [14] Callback that is executed when menuitem is pressed

-fill [23] Specifies fill color of menuitem

-font [24] Specifies font to use for text

-pen [45] Specifies pen color of menuitem

-relief [49] Specifies how border should be rendered (raised, flat, sunken, ridge, groove)

-state [53] State of the menuitem normal, active, or disabled)

-text [56] The text of the menuitem

See the documention for Menu and Choicemenu items for some example code that uses menuitems.

Pad++ Reference Manual - 20 JUN 1997

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