User Menu
Allows you to manage User Menu commands used to execute external
programs.
Dialog Box Options
- Menu Contents
- Lists all the User Menu commands you have defined. Placing an ampersand (&)
before a letter in the menu item text makes the letter an accelerator key.
- Submenu
- When checked, the current command becomes the start of a submenu. The name of the command
is used as the name of this submenu. All commands between the current command and the Submenu End
command (which is added automatically) are placed in the submenu. Submenus can be nested,
so you can create any structure in the User Menu. To move an existing menu command to the
submenu: focus this command and use buttons with arrows in the Menu Contents toolbar or
the Alt+Up and Down Arrows keys.
- Separator
- When checked, the name of the command will be ignored and the item signifies a separator in
the User Menu and in the User Menu Bar.
- Change Icon
- The icon associated with the command. You can change this icon by clicking the Change
Icon button.
- Command
- Specifies the path to the external program to execute.
- Arguments
- Specifies additional arguments for the external program each time you start
it. The maximum length of a command with arguments depends on the Windows version and
on whether you execute the command through the shell (see the Execute through shell
check box later on this page). See Customizing User Menu
for an overview of the limits.
- Initial directory
- Specifies the working directory used for the external program.
- Execute through shell
- When checked, the command is executed through the system command shell. Executing
through the system shell is useful for console-oriented applications whose output
you want to see, and for execution queues (pipes, redirected input and output, etc.).
Otherwise, the command is executed directly from Sally as a new process.
Direct execution is good for windowed applications.
- Open shell window
- When checked, the command shell window opens when the
command is executed.
- Close shell window
- When checked, the command shell window associated with the tool
closes when you close the executed program.
- Show item in User Menu bar
- When checked, the User Menu command is shown in the User Menu Bar.
See Also
Customizing User Menu
Using User Menu
User Menu Bar