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Pulldown Menu Widget

 
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PULLDOWN MENU Widget
Provides a menu of selections from which the operator can choose
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Legal Usage                Level-0 Widget:                Yes
                 Parent to:                MENU BUTTON,
                                         MENU TOGGLE,
                                         MENU SEPARATOR,
                                         CASCADE MENU
                 Child of:                        PANEL
 
Example Image
 
     
 
Example Program
 
See the Menu System program for an example program that shows how to create a PULLDOWN MENU widget.
 
NOTE
 
See the following programs for other examples using the PULLDOWN MENU widget:
 
         Environmental Chamber
         Function Generator
         HPGL VIEW Viewer
         Passwords
         SLIDER Test
         STRING Editor
 
Attributes
 
See PULLDOWN MENU Widget Attributes for the PULLDOWN MENU widget attribute list.
 
Remarks
 
The PULLDOWN MENU widget is used to provide a menu of selections from which
the user can choose. To activate a PULLDOWN MENU with a mouse, perform one
of these procedures:
 
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Depress the left mouse button when the cursor is in the boundary of the PULLDOWN MENUs label area and hold, dragging down to the topic you want, then releasing to access that topic.
 
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Depress the left mouse button when the cursor is in the boundary of the PULLDOWN MENUs label area and release, showing the available topics.  Then move the cursor to the desired available topic, depress the mouse button and release to access that topic.
 
To activate a PULLDOWN MENU using just the keyboard:
 
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Capture and hold the focus by depressing the Alt or Extend char key.  Keep holding the key down.
 
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Press and release the Tab key. This focuses the cursor onto the menu bar.
 
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Move through the panel selections with the arrow keys.
 
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When you have reached the item you want, select it by pressing the Return key
 
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Release the Alt or Extend char key
 
Events
 
None.