4.4.1 Menu Form Properties (General Items) dialog box
The Menu Form Properties dialog box appears when you select and double-click a menu form in the menu form view of the Script Menu Editor window.
The Menu Form Properties dialog box has five tabs: General Items, Background, Key, Style, and Wallpaper. Click the General Items tab to display the Menu Form Properties (General Items) page.
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- Organization of this subsection
(1) Components
In the Menu Form Properties (General Items) dialog box, you can set the following items for the menu form you selected.
- Caption
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Enter a caption for the menu form. You can specify character strings or a variable name that stores character strings.
You cannot specify an array variable for a variable name.
- Variable name
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Select this check box if you want to specify a variable in Caption.
- Menu form name
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Type the name of the menu form, complying with the variable naming conventions.
- End monitoring time
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Specify a timeout for the menu form.
Set a value in the range 0 to 86,400 (seconds). If you set zero, the menu form timeout will not be monitored.
- Width
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Specify in pixels the width of the menu form.
Set a value in the range 115 to 9,999. 600 is set by default.
- Height
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Specify in pixels the height of the menu form.
Set a value in the range 22 to 9,999. 400 is set by default.
- Background color
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Shows the background color of the menu form as specified in the Set Color dialog box.
Gray is set by default.
- Specify the window position
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Select this check box to set the position of the menu form when activated.
- X Coordinate and Y Coordinate
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Specify the X and Y coordinates of the display position when the menu form is activated. Set the values in pixels or as variables that store the values.
These boxes are available only if you select the Specify the window position check box. Zero is set in both coordinates by default.
- Specify by variables
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Select this check box if you want to specify variable names for X Coordinate and Y Coordinate.
This check box is available only if you select Specify the window position.
If you select this check box, you need to specify variable names for both X Coordinate and Y Coordinate.
You cannot specify an array variable for a variable name.
(2) Operations
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Click OK to apply the settings and close the Menu Form Properties dialog box.
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Click Cancel to close the dialog box without applying the settings.
(3) Processing
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When the Specify the window position check box is unselected, the activated menu form appears in the center of the screen.