19.4.6.1 Standard menu components

A standard menu component can be used to group related menu commands that would otherwise be placed as direct children of the menu bar they populate. This offers several advantages.

• Related menu items (such as Cut , Copy , and Paste ) are grouped with respect to their code definitions, as well as their physical location in an interface. This encourages a logical structure which makes for a good design.
• Using standard menu components to group related items is particularly useful when re-arranging a menu system. Groups of items may be moved in one action, rather than moving each item individually.
• Grouping items together using standard menu components adds a separator which improves the physical appearance of any menu.

Click Component in the button bar to add a standard menu component to the current interface. Menu components must be added as the children of a menu. Menu components are not visible in the interface skeleton until at least one item or submenu has been added, using the Item or Menu buttons.

Menu items added to a standard menu component appear as standard menu items in that component.

LispWorks IDE User Guide (Unix version) - 25 Nov 2011