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Menu Control Statements

You can define the menu bar, submenus, and menu options through menu control statements in the user.mnu file. The statement's syntax and description refer to menus, submenus, and items. On the CA Automation Point desktop, they are defined as follows:

• From the CA Automation Point desktop, if you click on a window to select, the menu associated with the window displays on the menu bar at the top of the desktop window. A menu is the complete set of submenus and their associated menu options selectable from the menu bar for a given function or session window.
• A unique menu name must be assigned to each menu. Each session window or function window definition has a menu defined for it. The name of the menu used for a session or function window is specified in Configuration Manager's, Session Definition Sets dialog for the selected session or function window definition under Window Attributes, menu edit box.
• Each item on the menu bar is a submenu. If you click on a submenu, a drop down list of menu options will appear.
• Each menu option is a submenu item.

For example, if you select the Merged Msg function window from the CA Automation Point desktop, the menu bar displayed consists of submenus titled, Action, Window, Edit, Cmdarea, and Help. Select the Edit submenu and a drop-down list displays with two items titled, Copy and Paste.