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Changing Object Names and Labels in the Menu Editor

To change the name of a menu object:

  1. Select the menu object in the Menu Editor.
  2. Choose Tools | Property Palette.
  3. In the Property Palette, under the General node, change the object's Name property.

Note: You will not see the effect of this change in the Menu Editor (unless the object is a menu, in which case you can view the new name in the Display Menu poplist).

To change the label of a menu object:

  1. In the Menu Editor, select the menu object.
    The label displays in reverse.
  2. Click again to enter edit mode.
    The cursor changes to an I-beam, the reverse display returns to normal, and the I-beam cursor is set wherever you clicked.
  3. Replace the old label with a new label.
  4. To end edit mode, press Return. To verify the label change, check the object's Label property in the Property Palette.

    Note: The first time you edit a menu object's label in the Menu Editor or Property Palette, the Object Navigator and the Property Palette automatically reflect this change (as closely as possible) in the object's name, making it easy for you to find the item you just created. For example, if you change the label for object ITEM2 from <New Item> to Show Keys, Oracle Forms automatically changes the object's name from ITEM2 to SHOW_KEYS. Additional changes to the object's label, however, will not be automatically reflected in the object's name.

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