Menu Form Options

Option Action When Option is ON
CURSORFREE The user is able to freely move between items on a menu with the arrow keys, including vertical cursor movement with the Up arrow and Down arrow keys. If moving left or right, there must be a field defined to the left or right or no movement occurs. When this option is OFF, the user can only move between items on a menu in the processing order.
FMALTERED Used during runtime to force update of menu.
FMWRAP When moving down from the last item on a menu, the cursor moves back up to the first item on the menu. Likewise, when moving up from the first item on a menu, the cursor moves to the last item on the menu.
MNAUTOSELECT The sub-menus for the form will be automatically displayed when the user makes any of the items active.
FLDCHSELECT The user can select an item by typing its selection character.
MNCONFIRM When enabled with FLDCHSELECT, character selection only highlights the appropriate field; the process of call the action function is completed by pressing Enter.
MNMSGAUTOPLACE The message window is automatically placed immediately below the active menu form.
MNREDISPLAY When the user jumps from a sub-menu to a menu that is several levels up, each sub-menu is retrieved and displayed until the desired level is reached.
MNTOPESCAPE If this is a top-level menu, escaping causes the user to leave the menu system.


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