Deleting a Menu Item

UI Designer provides an intuitive interface for adding menu support to your UI Designs.

Any menu item can deleted at will.

Deleting an Existing Menu Item

  1. Open a UI Design in the UI Design Editor or select an open UI Design.
  2. If this UI Design contains any Menu Bar components, they will be displayed in the non-layout region.

    Figure 1 shows a UI Design which contains one Menu Bar, named menuBar1.

    ui design with one menu

    Figure 1 - A UI Design which contains a single Menu Bar, menuBar1.

  3. Click the icon for the menu bar in the non-layout region to select it.
  4. As shown in Figure 2, the menu will be displayed at the bottom of the content region of your UI Design. Any existing items in this menu will be displayed. A place for a new item will be indicated by the text "Type here".

    menu none selected

    Figure 2 - A menu which contains three items.

  5. Click the existing menu item which you wish to delete.
  6. The item will be displayed in a rectangle, as shown in Figure 3.

    NOTE If the item has a submenu it will be displayed.

    new submenu

    Figure 3 - A selected menu item is ready to be deleted.

  7. Right-click on the menu item to display the Component context menu.
  8. The menu will be displayed.

  9. Select the Delete item from the context menu
  10. The selected menu item will be removed from the menu.

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