Allows you to specify options for prompts in a customized menu system. Use this dialog box to define keyboard shortcuts, determine when the menu or menu item is disabled, include a message in the status bar when the menu or menu item is selected, specify a name for a menu title, and control menu title location during OLE visual editing.
This dialog box appears when you choose the Options button in the Menu and Shortcut designers.
Comment
Provides space for adding a comment for personal use only. Comments do not affect generated code in any way; Microsoft Visual FoxPro ignores them when running the menu program.
Shortcut
Defines the optional shortcut key for a menu or menu item. Keyboard shortcuts for Visual FoxPro menu items are a combination of the CTRL key and another key.
Key Label
Displays your key combination. If a menu item does not have a keyboard shortcut, Visual FoxPro displays "(press the key)" in the Key Label box. Press the key combination you want for your shortcut key.
Key Text
Displays the text you want to appear beside the menu item. Unless you change it, this box repeats the keyboard shortcut from the Key Label box. For example, if both the Key Label and the Key Text were CTRL+R, you could change the Key Text to ^R.
Note You cannot assign CTRL+J as a keyboard shortcut for a menu item.
Skip For
Displays the Expression Builder dialog box. In the Skip For box of the Expression Builder, type the expression that determines whether the menu or menu item is disabled or enabled. The menu or menu item is disabled if the expression is true (.T.).
Negotiate
Specifies the location of menu titles when the user edits an OLE object in your application, or when a Visual FoxPro Active Document is hosted in an Internet browser.
Container
Specifies how the menu title will be merged when Visual FoxPro is the container of an in-place active object.
Note Menu negotiation options are available only for OLE objects that can be edited in place.
Object
Specifies how the menu title will be merged when a Visual FoxPro Active Document is hosted in an Internet browser.
The following table lists the menu title placement for each negotiation setting.
| Setting | Placement |
| None | Specifies that the menu title not be placed on the menu bar. This is the same as not choosing any option. |
| Left | Specifies that the menu title be placed in the left group of menu titles on the menu bar. |
| Middle | Specifies that the menu title be placed in the middle group of menu titles on the menu bar. |
| Right | Specifies that the menu title be placed in the right group of menu titles on the menu bar. |
For more information about object menu negotiation, see DEFINE PAD in the Language Reference and Active Documents in Chapter 31, "Interoperability and the Internet," in the Programmer's Guide.
Message
Displays the Expression Builder dialog box. In the Message box of the Expression Builder, type the message that will appear in the Visual FoxPro status bar that describes the menu choice.
Pad Name
Allows you to specify an optional menu title. The name or number used in the generated menu program is optional, and Visual FoxPro provides one if you do not. Using this name or number, you can reference a menu or menu item at run time. This option is available for menus only.
Note This option is available only if the Result area in the Menu Designer window shows Command, Submenu, or Procedure.
Bar #
Allows you to specify an optional shortcut menu title. This option is available for shortcut menus only.