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Magic Item Property

Description

Specifies one of the the following predefined menu items for custom menus: Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Undo, About, Help, Quit, or Window. Magic menu items are automatically displayed in the native style for the platform on which the form is being executed, with the appropriate accelerator key assigned.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Window, and Quit have Built-in functionality supplied by Oracle Forms, while the other magic menu items can have commands associated with them.

Applies to menu item

Set Oracle Forms

Default

Cut

Required/Optional optional

Usage Notes

The following settings are valid for this property:

Setting

Description

Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear

These items perform the usual text-manipulation operations. Oracle Forms supplies their functionality, so the designer may not enter a command for these items.

Undo, About

These items have no native functionality, so the designer must enter a command for these items. Any type of command can be used for these items, except Menu.

Help

The command for the Help menu item must be Menu. The designer provides the functionality of items on this submenu.

Quit

Quit also has Built-in functionality, so the designer may not assign a command to this item.

Window

The Window magic menu item presents a submenu of all open windows, allowing the user to activate any of them. If the Window magic menu item has a command that invokes a submenu, that submenu will contain both the list of open widows and the user-defined submenu items, in an order determined by Oracle Forms. The command type for a magic Window item is Null or Menu.

Magic Item Restrictions