Editing Standard Menu Contents Within Custom Menus

As you are creating your custom menus, you might find that you want only a portion of a standard Eclipse menu, or that you want to rename a menu option or assign a different shortcut key. To protect your custom menus, you cannot edit a standard menu, because you lose your changes the next time your software is upgraded. However, you can create a copy of a standard menu and modify it to meet your needs.

As you work with your custom menus, you can identify which menus are standard and which menus are copies that you can modify by the icons that display next to each menu in the menu details.

- Indicates a standard Eclipse menu that you cannot change.
- Indicates a copy of a standard menu that you can add to or remove content from, rename, or change the shortcut keys.

Any menu you create using Menu Maintenance is available in Eterm and in Solar.

To edit a standard menu within a custom menu:

From the System > System Files > User Control menu, select Menu Maintenance to display the Menu Maintenance window.
On the right side of the window, select the menu ID you want to edit in the Menu field, or click New to create a new menu.
Do any of the following to modify the contents of your custom menu.

The title and shortcut keys that display in the Title and Shortcut Key fields display for either Eterm or Solar, depending on whether the View > View Eterm Titles menu option is selected. To see both Eterm and Solar's titles and shortcut keys for a selected menu, click the Advanced button.

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change the title or shortcut to a window that isnot contained in a standard menu

select the window in your custom menu details, and update the information in the Title or ShortcutKey fields.

change the title or shortcut to a main menu in the main menu bar

select the menu in your custom menu details and update the title or shortcut key in the Title or ShortcutKey fields.

You can only change the title of a main menu. If a main menu contains other submenus, you cannot rename the submenus within the main menu without first copying the main menu.

change the title or shortcut to a main menu or a window within a main menu in your custom menu

select the menu or window in your custom menu details and update the title or key in the Title or ShortcutKey field.

The system displays a warning message indicating that you cannot change the contents of a main menu. Click OK, to rename the menu, which creates your own version of the menu, and update the title or shortcut key.

Your versions of menus are indicated with a folder icon.

remove a submenu or a window from a main menu

select the menu or window in your custom menu details you want to remove and click Remove.

The system displays a warning message indicating that you cannot change the contents of a main menu. Click OK, to rename the menu. You can remove any submenu or window from your version of the menu.

Your versions of menus are indicated with a folder icon.

From the File menu, select Save to save your custom menu. That menu is now available for selection to add to other custom menus in the Main Menus list.