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Chapter 3 - Menu Manager / Menu Manager Reference

Menu Manager Routines / Getting and Setting the Appearance of Menu Items

SetItemMark

Use the SetItemMark procedure to set the mark of a specific menu item or to change or set the submenu associated with a menu item.

PROCEDURE SetItemMark (theMenu: MenuHandle; item: Integer;
                        markChar: Char); 

theMenu

A handle to the menu record of the menu containing the menu item whose mark or submenu you wish to set.

item

The item number of the menu item. The SetItemMark procedure sets the mark or the submenu of this item.

markChar

The SetItemMark procedure sets the mark or submenu of this item according to the information in the markChar parameter.

To set the mark of a menu item, specify the marking character in the markChar parameter. You can also use one of these constants to specify that the item has no mark, has a checkmark as the marking character, or has the diamond symbol as the marking character:

CONST
noMark = 0; {no marking character}
checkMark = $12; {checkmark}
diamondMark = $13; {diamond symbol}

To set the submenu associated with this menu item, specify the menu ID of the submenu in the markChar parameter.

DESCRIPTION

The SetItemMark procedure sets the mark or the submenu of the specified menu item.

SEE ALSO

See Listing 3-11 on page 3-61 for examples of setting the mark of a menu item.