The Menu Parameters system table controls how menus are displayed in G2 and how the menu selections appear within the menu box.
Specifying how to Align Menu Choices
The Alignment-for-menu-choices attribute specifies how G2 displays menu selections. The left value specifies a left-justified display, right specifies a right-justified display, and center specifies a centered display. The default for this attribute is left. Allowing Multiple Menus to Display
The When-to-allow-multiple-menus attribute determines whether you can display on a workspace more than one copy of the same menu at a time, or whether you can display more than one menu at a time as follows:
Allowing Walking Menus
The Walking-menus? attribute determines whether G2 displays walking menus. When the menu attribute is set to yes, G2 lets you choose from submenus by dragging the mouse, leaving the original menu visible. When the attribute is set to no, you must click on a choice and dismiss the original menu to display a submenu. Walking-menus? attribute defaults to a value of no for KBs created in previous versions of G2. KB Workspace menu with two submenus. This display results from:
KB Workspace menu.
New Object menu choice. This causes G2 to display the choose a class submenu.
g2-list menu choice. This causes G2 to display the next choose a class submenu.
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Class-Specific Attributes of Menu Parameters
The class-specific attributes of the Menu Parameters system table are: