MENU TO

Invoked a menu defined by set of @…PROMPT

Syntax

      MENU TO <cVariable>

Arguments

<cVariable> is a character string that contain the name of the variable to hold the menu choices, if this variable does not exist a PRIVATE variable with the name <cVariable> would be created to hold the result.

Description

Menu To() invoked the menu define by previous __AtPrompt() call and display a highlight bar that the user can move to select an option from the menu. If <cVariable> does not exist or not visible, a PRIVATE variable named <cVariable> is created and hold the current menu selection. If there is a variable named <cVariable>, its value is used to select the first highlighted item.

Menu prompts and messages are displayed in current Standard color, highlighted bar is displayed using current Enhanced color.

Pressing the arrow keys move the highlighted bar. When a menu item is highlighted the message associated with it is displayed on the line specified with SET MESSAGE. If SET WRAP is ON and the user press UP arrow while on the first selection the last menu item is highlighted, if the user press Down arrow while on the last item, the first item is highlighted.

Following are active keys that handled by Menu To:

       key            Meaning
       -------------- ---------------------------------
       Up             Move to previous item
       Down           Move to next item
       Left           Move to previous item
       Right          Move to next item
       Home           Move to the first item
       End            Move to the last item
       Page-Up        Select menu item, return position
       Page-Down      Select menu item, return position
       Enter          Select menu item, return position
       Esc            Abort selection, return 0
       First letter   Select next menu with the same first letter,
                      return this item position.

Upon exit the cursor is placed at MaxRow()-1, 0 Menu To can be nested without loosing the previous prompts.

MENU TO command is preprocessed into __MenuTo() function during compile time.

Examples

      // display menu item on each screen corner and let user select one
      CLS
      SET MESSAGE TO MaxRow() / 2 CENTER
      SET WRAP ON
      @ 0           , 0             PROMPT "1. Upper left"   MESSAGE " One "
      @ 0           , MaxCol() - 16 PROMPT "2. Upper right"  MESSAGE " Two "
      @ MaxRow() - 1, MaxCol() - 16 PROMPT "3. Bottom right" MESSAGE "Three"
      @ MaxRow() - 1, 0             PROMPT "4. Bottom left"  MESSAGE "Four "
      MENU TO nChoice
      SetPos( MaxRow() / 2, MaxCol() / 2 - 10 )
      IF nChoice == 0
         ?? "Esc was pressed"
      ELSE
         ?? "Selected option is", nChoice
      ENDIF

Compliance

Clipper

Seealso

@…PROMPT, ACHOICE(), SET MESSAGE, SET INTENSITY, SET WRAP, __ATPROMPT()