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Example: Add menu choices

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The text editor example has five choices on its two pull-down menus.

Adding menu choices

To add the menu choices to its File and Edit pull-down menus, do the following:

  1. Put a check mark in the Sticky check box.
  2. Select Menu Choice icon (Menu Choice part) from Menus category (Menus category).
  3. Click once on the File pull-down menu on the free-form surface. (It's called Popup Menu1.) And click four times on the Edit pull-down menu, Popup Menu2.
  4. Click on Selection tool (Selection tool) to de-activate the Sticky.
  5. Change the labels of the menu choices. The File pull-down menu has the choice Exit.
    Window with menu choices

    And the Edit menu has the choices Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select all.

Adding a separator

Next, add a separator between the Paste and Select all choices.

Separator icon (Separator part) is in Menus category icon (Menus category).

The Edit pull-down menu now resembles the following:
Pop-uo Menu

Adding the connections

Finally, connect the clicked event of each menu choice to the following actions:

Menu choice
Target action

Exit
Window's closeWidget

Cut
Multi-line Edit's cutSelection

Copy
Multi-line Edit's copySelection

Paste
Multi-line Edit's paste

Select all
Multi-line Edit's selectAll


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