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====== QTIPS - Comment Lines In Pulldown Menus=====

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|Sprezzatura Ltd|01 MAR 1992|2.11+|EXPERT|MENU, PULLDOWN, COMMENT|

Dave Mills of the Nature Conservancy Council points out that is can
sometimes be desirable to have lines which take no action in a pull down
menu. For example, a report menu might wish to distinguish between the
pre-written section of the menu and the ad-hoc section by inserting a line
of char(176)s across the menu.

To achieve this, put the characters required in the "Selection" portion of
the menu entry screen and in the Code portion put a "*". When the menu
processor reaches this line it will place the highlight bar on the line but
will do nothing when return is pressed.

If all that is required is a single line across the menu (as above the
Esc=Cancel line) this can be more easily achieved by inserting a blank line
in the menu definition where the line is required, by pressing Ctrl-N on the
menu entry screen line.


(Volume 3, Issue 9, Page 4)