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There are two ways of creating a status:

  • By creating new components with a unique reference to the status.
  • By referring to existing components, and using them more than once in several different statuses.

    When you do this, you can create individual menu bars, menu functions, and function key settings either for an arbitrary basic status, or from the appropriate overview list. After that new statuses can use these components.

Procedure

Use the procedures below to copy a menu bar, a function key setting or an application toolbar.

Copying a Menu Bar

  1. Create a new status that you want to link to a menu bar.
  2. Open the Menu Painter for the new GUI status and choose Edit → Copy → Menu bar (or the corresponding assign icon ).

    The system displays a list of all existing menu bars for the current program.

  3. Choose a menu bar by double-clicking it.

    The status links to the functions on the list.

  4. Activate the functions.

Copying a Function Key Assignment

  1. Create a new status that you want to link to a function key setting.
  2. Open the Menu Painter for the new GUI status and choose Edit → Copy → Function key setting (or the corresponding assign icon ).

    The system displays a list of all existing function key settings for the current program.

  3. Choose a function key setting by double-clicking it.

    The system creates the link to the function key setting.

  4. Activate the functions.

Copying an Application Toolbar

  1. Create a new status that you want to link to an application toolbar
  2. Open the Menu Painter for the relevant GUI status and choose Edit → Copy → Pushbutton setting(or the corresponding assign icon ).

    The system displays a list of all existing application toolbars for the current program.

  3. Choose an application toolbar by double-clicking it.

    The system creates a reference to the application toolbar

  4. Activate the functions.

Removing Links

The simplest way to remove a link is to overwrite the link with new information.

You can also use the Edit → Initialize function to reset a function key, menu, or pushbutton setting.