Description
The MenuItem object provides a program interface to items of the following menus:
- Standard Win32 Menu
- Borland Action Menu Bar
- ComponentOne Menus and Toolbars
- Developer Express XtraBars
- Developer Express ASPxMenu
- Infragistics UltraWinToolbars
- GWT MenuBar menus
- Janus UI Controls
- Java applications’ menus
- JavaFX applications’ menus
- Microsoft MenuStrip menus
- Microsoft ContextMenuStrip menus
- Qt applications’ menus
- SAP GUI popup menus
- Syncfusion Essential Tools Menus
- Telerik Menus and ToolBars
- WPF applications’ menus
The object provides access to both main, system and context (or shortcut) menu items. Its properties let you determine properties of the menu item.
To obtain the object in scripts, use the Items property of the Menu object.
Members
PropertiesExample
The following example demonstrates how you can obtain the MenuItem object in your script.
JavaScript, JScript
function MenuItemSample()
{
var Notepad, Window, MainMenu, FileItem;
// Obtains the Windows Notepad main menu
Notepad = Sys.Process("Notepad");
Window = Notepad.Window("Notepad", "*");
MainMenu = Window.MainMenu;
// Obtains the File menu item
FileItem = MainMenu.Items("File");
…
}
Python
def MenuItemSample():
# Obtains the Windows Notepad main menu
Notepad = Sys.Process("notepad")
Window = Notepad.Window("Notepad", "*")
MainMenu = Window.MainMenu
# Obtains the File menu item
FileItem = MainMenu.Items["File"]
# ...VBScript
Sub MenuItemSample
' Obtains the Windows Notepad main menu
Set Notepad = Sys.Process("Notepad")
Set Window = Notepad.Window("Notepad", "*")
Set MainMenu = Window.MainMenu
' Obtains the File menu item
Set FileItem = MainMenu.Items("File")
…
End Sub
DelphiScript
procedure MenuItemSample();
var Notepad, Window, MainMenu, FileItem;
begin
// Obtains the Windows Notepad main menu
Notepad := Sys.Process('Notepad');
Window := Notepad.Window('Notepad', '*');
MainMenu := Window.MainMenu;
// Obtains the File menu item
FileItem := MainMenu.Items('File');
…
end;
C++Script, C#Script
function MenuItemSample()
{
var Notepad, Window, MainMenu, FileItem;
// Obtains the Windows Notepad main menu
Notepad = Sys["Process"]("Notepad");
Window = Notepad["Window"]("Notepad", "*");
MainMenu = Window["MainMenu"];
// Obtains the File menu item
FileItem = MainMenu["Items"]("File");
…
}
See Also
Working With Menus in Desktop Windows Applications
Working With Standard Windows Controls
Menu Object