PRMPAD( ) Function Example

In the following example, a menu bar named mnuExample is created with three menu titles. The access key and disabled option designators aren't returned from the menu titles named titleTwo and titleThree. The menu bar is activated to show the menu titles and is cleared from the screen and from memory when a menu title is chosen.

CLEAR
SET TALK OFF
STORE 'mnuExample' TO gcPopName

DEFINE MENU mnuExample BAR AT LINE 1
DEFINE PAD titleOne OF mnuExample PROMPT 'This will be returned'
DEFINE PAD titleTwo OF mnuExample PROMPT '\<As will this'
DEFINE PAD titleThree OF mnuExample PROMPT '\And this, too'

=messagebox( PRMPAD('mnuExample', 'titleOne') )
=messagebox( PRMPAD('mnuExample', 'titleTwo') )
=messagebox( PRMPAD(gcPopName, 'titleThree') )

ACTIVATE MENU mnuExample
DEACTIVATE MENU mnuExample
RELEASE MENU mnuExample