The Menu Editor is a graphical design facility for laying out, modifying, and viewing menu modules
and their objects. You can use the Menu Editor to carry out all of your menu design work.
Note:
To use the Menu Editor to create a basic structure for your menu, perform the following steps:
1. With the SUMMIT_MENU module selected, perform one of the following actions to invoke the
Menu Editor:
Double-click the icon to the left of the module
Right-click the module and select Menu Editor
Select Tools > Menu Editor from the Forms Builder menu
2. When you invoke the Menu Editor, it automatically creates the main menu and one menu item. The main menu is the menu whose items, which can be menu items or submenus, show in the menu bar when you run a form.
In the Object Navigator, change the name of the main menu to MAIN_MENU in the same way that
you changed the name of the menu module.
3. In the Object Navigator, change the name of the menu item to File.
4. Note that the item's display label in the Menu Editor remains the same.
The label is the text that is displayed for the menu item at run time. The label may differ from the
name. You use the name programmatically, and it must follow PL/SQL naming conventions.
Change the label of the menu item by double-clicking <New_Item> in the Menu Editor and typing
the new label of File.
5. Create two menu items under File. In the Menu Editor, select File, then click Create Down twice.
6. In the Menu Editor, relabel the menu items to Save and Exit.
Note that creating menu items under the File object creates a FILE_MENU object as a menu with two items under it. Also, when you relabel the items in the Menu Editor, the names of the items, as shown in the Object Navigator, also change.
7. Create another submenu of the main menu and label it Edit by performing the following steps:
In the Menu Editor, select the File node.
Click Create Right.
Relabel the new menu Edit.
8. In a similar fashion to the way you created the File menu items, create two items for the Edit
menu labeled Copy and Paste.
9. You can also use the Object Navigator to add a menu item.
Under the Edit_Menu in the Object Navigator, select the Items node and click Create.
10. In the same way as you did with other items, relabel the new item in the Menu Editor with the
label Cut, which also renames it in the Object Navigator.
Reference: Creating Oracle Forms Menus

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