
Selecting the Menu Characteristics or Commandline Characteristics
will present you with the following screen on which the menu's
color, help text pointer and audit status can be edited.
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----Menu Information - Menu-----------------------------------------------------

   Short name: mm           Module:  Db                   # of Choices: 10

   Type: menu

   Title: Main Menu

   Command List Title:
   Text Background Colour: 0
   Text Foreground Colour: 15
   Graphics Foreground Colour: 3

   Help Text Pointer: mmov

   Audit Usage:  No  Yes





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With this screen, details of the menu option may be specified.  A
description of the acceptable entries into each field on this
screen is presented below.

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Short Name - This field is a unique identifier for the menu.
        This name can not be duplicated for any other menu or
        command list and must conform to file naming conventions.
        You may not modify this choice.


Module - Identifies the module that this menu is referencing and
        working in. Available choices are Data Base, Word
        Processor, Spread Sheet, Communications.

# of Choices - This indicates the number of selections available
        on this menu.  This will not change for any of the
        options on this menu.

Type - Identifies the menu type.  The available options are:
        menu     - standard box-style menu
        dataview - command list, that when activated loads a data
                   base
        ssview   - command list, that when activated loads a
                   spreadsheet
        docview  - command list, that when activated loads a
                   document.
        comlist  - command list

Title - This is the field that contains the description that will
        appear on the menu or command list of the application.

Command List Title - This field is only used with the menu type
        "comlist", "dataview", "ssview", or "docview".  This
        field is used as a prompt and is displayed to the left of
        the command list.

Text Background Colour - This field defines the colour to be used
        for the background of the items on the command list or
        menu .  To choose another colour press F6.

Text Foreground Colour - This field defines the foreground colour
        to be used for the items on the command list or menu.  To
        choose another colour press F6.

Graphics Foreground Colour - This field indicates the colour of
        the box which surrounds box styles type menus.

Note: If the colours are omitted, default colour options are
        used.

Help Text Pointer - This field contains the file name of the help
        text file associated with the current item.

Audit Usage - This field indicates if the menu is to be audited.
        Every time a user selects an item on an audited menu, the
        details of the occurrence are recorded in a special audit
        log.  This information can be analyzed by using the User
        Management option of the application.

NOTE: For more information on any of these fields and their
contents, please refer to 3.2.1 Menu and Command List
Characteristics in the Developer's Manual.

