XmCreateMenuBar(library call) XmCreateMenuBar(library call)

NAME

XmCreateMenuBar -- A RowColumn widget convenience creation function

SYNOPSIS

#include <Xm/RowColumn.h>
Widget XmCreateMenuBar(
Widget parent,
String name,
ArgList arglist,
Cardinal argcount);

DESCRIPTION

XmCreateMenuBar creates an instance of a RowColumn widget of type
XmMENU_BAR and returns the associated widget ID. It is provided as a
convenience function for creating RowColumn widgets configured to
operate as a MenuBar and is not implemented as a separate widget
class.

The MenuBar widget is generally used for building a Pulldown menu
system. Typically, a MenuBar is created and placed along the top of
the application window, and several CascadeButtons are inserted as
the children. Each of the CascadeButtons has a Pulldown menu pane
associated with it. These Pulldown menu panes must have been created
as children of the MenuBar. The user interacts with the MenuBar by
using either the mouse or the keyboard.

The MenuBar displays a 3-D shadow along its border. The application
controls the shadow attributes using the visual-related resources
supported by XmManager.

The MenuBar widget is homogeneous in that it accepts only children
that are a subclass of XmCascadeButton or XmCascadeButtonGadget.
Attempting to insert a child of a different class results in a
warning message.

If the MenuBar does not have enough room to fit all of its subwidgets
on a single line, the MenuBar attempts to wrap the remaining entries
onto additional lines if allowed by the geometry manager of the
parent widget.

parent Specifies the parent widget ID

name Specifies the name of the created widget

arglist Specifies the argument list

argcount Specifies the number of attribute/value pairs in the
argument list (arglist)

For a complete definition of RowColumn and its associated resources,
see XmRowColumn(3).

RETURN

Returns the RowColumn widget ID.

RELATED

XmCascadeButton(3), XmCascadeButtonGadget(3),
XmCreatePulldownMenu(3), XmCreateSimpleMenuBar(3), XmManager(3),
XmRowColumn(3), and XmVaCreateSimpleMenuBar(3).

XmCreateMenuBar(library call)