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NOTE
The Menu Designer always provides a blank menu item at the bottom
of each pop-up menu and on the right side of the menu bar. You
cannot delete these blank items, but there’s no need to—they are only
used in the Menu Designer and won’t show on the menu when your
program runs.
Now that the File menu is done, we need to create an Edit menu and a Help menu.
Inserting a Menu from a Template
This time we’ll take the easy approach. First, click on the blank pop-up menu placeholder
to the right of the File menu. Now click your secondary mouse button and choose Insert
From Template from the speed menu. The Insert Template dialog box is displayed, as shown
in Figure 7.21.
Figure 7.21.
The Insert Template
dialog box.
This dialog box shows a list of templates from which you can choose. You can use the
predefined templates or create your own. In this case, we are only interested in adding an Edit
menu, so choose Edit Menu and click OK. A full Edit menu is immediately inserted into the
Menu Designer. In fact, it’s a little too full. We’ll deal with that in a moment.
As long as we’re here, let’s add the Help menu, too. Click on the placeholder to the right of
the Edit menu. Choose Insert From Template again, and this time insert a Help menu.
(Don’t choose the Expanded Help menu, though.) We’ll tidy up both the Edit and Help
menus in the next section. Notice that the main form has been updating to show the new
menu items as they are placed.
NOTE
You can insert templates to create pop-up menus as easily as you can
when creating main menu items.