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About Creating Custom Submenus

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You can create submenus to organize and group similar menu items together.

A submenu is a menu item that displays a new menu with additional menu items when clicked. The menu item created to display a submenu shows a triangle on its right side.

The following table describes the non-alphanumeric characters that can be used to control the display and behavior of the caption for a submenu. Non-alphanumeric characters not listed are reserved for future use as special menu characters.

Special characters for submenus

Character

Description

Example

$(

Enables the menu label to evaluate a DIESEL string macro if $( are the first characters.

$(if,$(and,$(getvar,CleanScreenState),1),!.)Clean S&creen

~

Makes a menu item unavailable.

~Plot Style

!.

Marks a menu item with a check mark or if an icon is displayed for the menu item it appears sunken.

!.Layer...

&

Placed directly before a character, specifies the character as the menu access key in a pull-down or shortcut menu label.

S&ample displays Sample (with the letter a underlined).

\t

Pushes all label text entered after these characters to the right side of the menu.

Help\tF1 displays Help on the left side of the menu and F1 on the right side.

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