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Quick Reference

Commands

CUI

Manages the customized user interface elements in the product.

Pull-down and Shortcut Menus

Pull-down menus are displayed as a list under a menu bar. Shortcut menus

(also called context menus) are displayed at or near the crosshairs or cursor

when you right-click in the drawing window, text window, command window,

in toolbar areas, or the ribbon.

Overview of Pull-Down and Shortcut Menus

A pull-down menu can contain up to 999 commands. A shortcut menu can

contain up to 499 commands. The command limit includes all menus in a

hierarchy. If commands in the menu file exceed these limits (which is unlikely),

the program ignores the extra commands. If a pull-down or shortcut menu is

longer than the available display space, it is truncated to fit. When a pull-down

or shortcut menu is truncated, two arrows are added to the menu; one is added

at the top and another to the bottom. With the arrows, you can scroll the list

of menu items up or down. The following table shows the properties for the

File menu as they appear in the Properties pane. The properties for a pull-down

menu and shortcut menu are identical.

Properties for the File menu

Properties pane Description Example
item

Name String used as the caption of the menu on the menu bar. &File

Text used to describe the element; does not appear in

the user interface.

Description

Specifies the aliases for the menu. Click the [ ] button to POP1, FILE

open the Aliases dialog box. Each alias in the CUIx file

Aliases

should be unique; and it is used to reference the menu

programmatically.

Element ID Tag that uniquely identifies a menu. ID_MnFile

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