Many characteristics of a menu form's appearance are set to defaults. Table 21.1 lists these characteristics and their defaults. You can change these characteristics to suit your application.
Designer: Changes made inside the Designer will override these defaults.
Table 21.1: Default Settings for Menu Appearance
| Form Appearance | Default |
| Menu Field Attributes | |
| Active field | LMNACT |
| Inactive field | LMNINACT |
| Skip field | LMNUNAVAIL |
| Selection character | LFLDSELCH |
| Checkmark Character | SYS_CHECKMARK |
| Menu Window | |
| (based on MN_WNP defaults) | |
| Border attribute | att specified in mn_def() or in Designer |
| Border title | None |
| Menu-specific logical attribute table | NULLP if form is defined in code, library logical attribute table for Designer forms |
| Margins, left & right | 0, 0 |
| Margins, top & bottom | 0, 0 |
| Message Window | Borderless window using attribute LMESSAGE, automatically placed in row below the current menu |
