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262 Day 7
After you have the menu created, choose Save As Template from the Menu Designer’s speed
menu. The Save Template dialog box is displayed. Give the menu a meaningful name and
click the OK button, and the menu is saved as a template. To insert the menu, choose Insert
From Template from the Menu Designer’s speed menu just as you did earlier. Any menus
you have created will show up along with C++Builder’s prebuilt templates.
To remove a template that you have previously created, choose Delete Templates from the
Menu Designer’s speed menu. The Delete Templates dialog box is displayed, and you can
choose the templates you want to delete. When you click the OK button, the selected menu
templates will be deleted. Press Cancel to close the dialog box without deleting any templates.
Summary
Congratulations! You have just covered the bulk of the visual programming features of
C++Builder. Hopefully it was enjoyable for you as well as educational. The Form Designer
is a powerful tool that allows you to do as much of your programming as possible visually.
If you haven’t had to place controls on a window in C or C++, you may not fully appreciate
this advantage. Trust me, it’s significant. The Menu Designer is also a powerful tool,
particularly because of the capability to import menus, which makes menu creation easy and
actually fun with C++Builder. The Menu Designer also makes updating existing menus a
snap.
Workshop
The Workshop contains quiz questions to help you solidify your understanding of the
material covered and exercises to provide you with experience in using what you have learned.
You can find answers to the quiz questions in Appendix A, “Answers to Quiz Questions.”
Q&A
Q I’m using the Alignment Palette a lot, and every time I switch from the Code
Editor back to the Form Designer, the Alignment Palette gets lost somewhere.
Is there anything I can do about that?
A Locate the Alignment Palette (it’s there somewhere!) and click your secondary
mouse button to bring up the Alignment Palette’s speed menu. Choose the Stay on
Top item from the speed menu. Now the Alignment Palette will always be on top
where you can find it.