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MPI Menu module

The menu module allows you to create, edit, insert and remove menus.

To create a menu you click the New button on the left, this creates an untitled menu and puts <untitled> into the Name field so that you can edit, it, hitting the Enter key sets the name. You can Edit a menu name any time by selecting it in the menu list.

With a menu selected on the left you can edit its items on the right of the palette.
New, Delete and Script work as you would expect, and the naming of items works in a similar way to naming items.

The check boxed on the left reflect and set the item to their respective names. The popup button on the bottom left lets you choose a command char for the item.

The insert check box indicates weather a menu is currently in the menuBar and if hilighted, inserts the selected menu.

Two of the most powerful and timesaving features of the palette are accessed through drag and drop: If you drag a menu from the left onto a menu item in another menu on the right, the first menu is inserted as a sub menu of the item you drop it on. You can also reorder menu items via drag and drop, saving a lot of time if you forget an item when creating a menu.

Here is an Menu Module Movie with notes which shows what is going on.

The menu module features:

• Drag and drop in items list for reordering items.
• Drag from menus list and drop into items list for inserting a submenu.
• Option-click the "new" button for inserting a new item above the selected item.