The Interface of the Menu Painter
When you open the Repository Browser and choose a status of a program, the system displays the work area of the Menu Painter. Here, you can edit all the components of the screen.
Work Area of the Menu Painter
From the worksheet, you can create a menu bar, define menu functions, assign F keys, customize the standard tool bar, and create an application toolbar. To maintain the menu bar, application toolbar, or function key settings, click the Expand icon next to the relevant area.
Interface Object List
The Menu Painter keeps lists of all components of the GUI. For example, the menu list contains the entries from all of the menu bars in the program. There are six different lists (status list, menu bar list, menu list, function key setting list, function list, and title list). You can access any of these lists from the Goto menu of the worksheet, or from the initial screen of the Menu Painter.
You can also change menu texts, function texts, icons, title texts and short documentation if you access the list in change mode. The lists not only give a rapid overview of the interface components for the whole program, they also make it easier to maintain their text entries.
Activating the Interface
None of the changes you make to your interface are visible at runtime until you activate it. Once you have completed and tested your changes, you have to reactivate the interface. When you activate the interface, the system creates a load version of it and your last set of changes becomes visible in all programs that use the interface.
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