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About Using Toolbars and Menus in Templates

Toolbars allow the user to initiate various actions. Application menus (File, Edit, View and so on) appear in their own frame near the top of the application in the browser window, and the application toolbar appears just beneath it, as shown in Figure 131.

Figure 131.  Application Menu and Toolbar

The applet-level menus are invoked from the applet menu button, in the control banner at the top of an applet. This is illustrated in Figure 132 where the menu button is in the left corner of the control banner.

Figure 132.  Applet Menu Button

Clicking on a toolbar icon or menu item is normally translated into a call to an invoke method, which may reside in a service on the browser or server, or in classes in the browser application or server infrastructure (applet or business component classes). The toolbar icon or menu item is configured to target a method name, a method handler, and optionally a service.

Application-level items (which include both toolbar icons and application-level menus) are implemented through the use of Command object definitions in Tools, which are then mapped to Toolbar Item or Menu Item object definitions. Applet-level menus do not use Command object definitions, but the set of properties used for targeting the method are essentially the same as those found in the Command object type.