Overview of the Menu Builder user interface

The first step in using the Menu Builder is to create a new menu structure, or open an existing one, from the File menu. Once this has been done, use the user interface to edit and build the menu structure. The main features of the user interface are as follows:

The menu bar commands are summarised in the following table:

Menu Bar	Menu Item	Description
`File`	`New`	Creates a new menu structure. For this and other `File` menu commands, see How to create, load and save projects.
	`Open...`	Opens a menubuilder`.mbld` menu builder file
	`Close`	Closes the currently selected file
	`Save...`	Saves the project file
	`Exit`	Exits the application
`Edit`	`Edit Current...`	Executes the edit dialog for the currently selected menu or menu item
	`Delete current`	Deletes the currently selected menu or menu item
`Insert`	`Before Current...`	Inserts a new menu before the currently selected menu
	`After current`	Inserts a new menu after the currently selected menu
	`Above Current...`	Inserts a new menu item above the currently selected menu item
	`Below Current...`	Inserts a new menu item below the currently selected menu item
	`Separator Below Current...`	Inserts a separator below the currently selected menu item
	`Set Insertion type`	Sets a menu insertion type of one of the following: `Standard` `Checkbox`, `Cascade Menu`, `Radio Button Group`.

The toolbar provides quick access to selected commands:

New Menu Structure
Open Menu Definition File
Save Menu Structure
Insert Before Current/Insert Above Current
Insert After Current/Insert Below Current
Menu Item Insertion Type list box
Insert separator below current
Edit current
Delete current

Overview of the Menu Builder user interface

Menu

Tool bar