A popup menu is a special kind of form
that can be added to a form group.
Fundamentally, a popup menu is the same as an ordinary text form,
but popup
menus are created with pre-made features like a title, help text,
and a specified
number of menu options. To create a popup menu in the EGL Text Form
editor, follow
these steps:
- Open a form group in the Text Form editor.
- On
the Palette view, click Popup Menu.
- On
the form group in the editor, click and drag a rectangle that indicates
the size and shape of the popup menu. The Create Form Part window
opens.
- In the Create Form Part Window, type a name for the
form in the Enter
part name field. This name will be the name of the form
part in
the EGL source code.
- Click OK. The
New Popup Menu Template window opens.
- In the New Popup Menu
Template, specify the size of the popup menu in
the Width and Height fields.
By default, these fields are populated with the size of the form you
created
in the editor.
- In the Menu Title field,
type the title of the
menu.
- In the Number of Menu Options field,
type the number
of menu options that the popup menu will have.
- In the Menu
Help Text field, type any additional
help text for the menu.
- Click Finish.
The new popup menu is created in
the editor.
- Add fields to the new popup menu and edit the
existing fields as appropriate.
See Creating a constant field and Creating a variable field.