AEOLUS BUILDER MENU SYSTEM

Generating Clipper 5.x style code and selecting to allow mouse
inputs for your application will create mouse aware menus.
(Summer '87 style code cannot be made mouse aware.)

When beginning a Builder application there is a selection where you
decide the appearance of your menus.  The options are 1) Bar Drop- Down
(the style used in the Demo program), 2) Disappearing - just like "Bar
Drop-Down" except the menu disappears before the next non-menu option is
called (kinda like Windows) 3) Window Drop-Down where the root
application menu is in a bordered window, and 4) Pop Up, the Pop Up
style root menu is centered on the screen and the menu selections are
vertical instead of horizontal.

You will also select the border style for your menus, there are several
to choose from, and whether your menu windows will display a shadow.


A menu option on Builder applications can be selected any one of three
different ways:

1.  You can use the Up/Down/Left/Right arrow keys to move the menu
    highlight pointer and the Enter key to select a menu option.

2.  You can press the highlighted speed key to select a menu option.
    Alt+ the speed key also works.
    (Clipper 5.x menus only)

3.  You can click on a menu option with the mouse cursor to select it.

Try each of these access methods using the menus in this Demo program.

Creating menus with the Aeolus Builder is as easy as typing in the
text of the menu labels, Builder does the rest!

You can also optionally enter a WHEN conditon, just like for Clipper
GETs, for your Builder menu pads.  If this condition returns a logical
false (.F.), the menu option will be 'greyed' out and become unselectable.
(Clipper 5.x only)

And--If you don't like how Builder placed either your menu or it's prompts,
it is a simple matter to move them.

Want a separator bar in a vertical menu?  Simply move the menu pads so that
there is a blank line in the menu -- Builder automatically inserts a
separator bar.

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