ACTIVATE MENU Command Example

The following example uses ACTIVATE MENU to display and activate a user-defined menu system. The current system menu bar is first saved to memory with SET SYSMENU SAVE, and then all system menu titles are removed with SET SYSMENU TO.

Two menu titles are created with DEFINE PAD; DEFINE POPUP is used to create a drop-down menu for each menu title. DEFINE BAR is used to create menu items on each of the menus. When a menu title is chosen, ON PAD uses ACTIVATE POPUP to activate the corresponding menu. ACTIVATE MENU displays and activates the menu bar.

When a menu item is chosen from a menu, the CHOICE procedure is executed. CHOICE displays the name of the chosen item and the name of the menu containing the item.

*** Name this program ACTIMENU.PRG ***
CLEAR
SET SYSMENU SAVE
SET SYSMENU TO
ON KEY LABEL ESC KEYBOARD CHR(13)
DEFINE MENU example BAR AT LINE 1
DEFINE PAD convpad OF example PROMPT '\<Conversions' COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
   KEY ALT+C, ''
DEFINE PAD cardpad OF example PROMPT 'Card \<Info' COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
   KEY ALT+I, ''
ON PAD convpad OF example ACTIVATE POPUP conversion
ON PAD cardpad OF example ACTIVATE POPUP cardinfo
DEFINE POPUP conversion MARGIN RELATIVE COLOR SCHEME 4
DEFINE BAR 1 OF conversion PROMPT 'Ar\<ea' ;
   KEY CTRL+E, '^E'
DEFINE BAR 2 OF conversion PROMPT '\<Length' ;
   KEY CTRL+L, '^L'
DEFINE BAR 3 OF conversion PROMPT 'Ma\<ss' ;
   KEY CTRL+S, '^S'
DEFINE BAR 4 OF conversion PROMPT 'Spee\<d' ;
   KEY CTRL+D, '^D'
DEFINE BAR 5 OF conversion PROMPT '\<Temperature' ;
   KEY CTRL+T, '^T'
DEFINE BAR 6 OF conversion PROMPT 'T\<ime' ;
   KEY CTRL+I, '^I'
DEFINE BAR 7 OF conversion PROMPT 'Volu\<me' ;
   KEY CTRL+M, '^M'
ON SELECTION POPUP conversion DO choice IN actimenu;
   WITH PROMPT( ), POPUP( )
DEFINE POPUP cardinfo MARGIN RELATIVE COLOR SCHEME 4
DEFINE BAR 1 OF cardinfo PROMPT '\<View Charges' ;
   KEY ALT+V, ''
DEFINE BAR 2 OF cardinfo PROMPT 'View \<Payments' ;
   KEY ALT+P, ''
DEFINE BAR 3 OF cardinfo PROMPT 'Vie\<w Users' ;
   KEY ALT+W, ''
DEFINE BAR 4 OF cardinfo PROMPT '\-'
DEFINE BAR 5 OF cardinfo PROMPT '\<Charges ' ;
   KEY ALT+C, ''
ON SELECTION POPUP cardinfo;
   DO choice IN actimenu WITH PROMPT( ), POPUP( )

ACTIVATE MENU example
DEACTIVATE MENU example
RELEASE MENU example EXTENDED
SET SYSMENU TO DEFAULT
ON KEY LABEL ESC
PROCEDURE choice
PARAMETERS mprompt, mpopup
WAIT WINDOW 'You chose ' + mprompt + ' from popup ' + mpopup NOWAIT