## Adding Menus

UI Designer provides an intuitive interface for adding menu support to your UI designs. When a menu component is placed into a UI design it is represented by an icon in the non-layout region of the UI Design Editor view. The editing of menu items is done using the menu editor.

#### Adding a Menu to a UI Design

1. Open a UI Design in the UI Design Editor or select an open UI Design.
2. Open the Menu Drawer of the Palette.
3. Drag a Menu Bar component into the layout or non-layout region of your UI design, or into the Outline view.

The cursor displays a plus sign () inside of a small square when it is located at a place which will accept the new Menu Bar component or a slashed circle () when it is located at a place that will not accept it.

4. Release the mouse button while the cursor is displaying the plus sign inside of a square.

A new menu is added to the design. As shown in figure 1, the new menu initializes the text for the first item to the string "Type here".

Figure 1 - A newly created menu inviting you to type the name of its first item.

You can now rename its first entry and/or add additional items to the menu.

##### Related concepts

- Standard Components

##### Related references

- Menu Editor

##### Related tasks

- Adding Menu Items
- Adding Submenus
- Deleting Menus
- Deleting Menu Items
- Renaming Menus
- Reordering Menus