Legacy Document

Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 3 - Menu Manager / Menu Manager Reference

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

CheckItem

Use the CheckItem procedure to set the mark of a specific menu item to a checkmark or to remove a mark from a menu item.

PROCEDURE CheckItem (theMenu: MenuHandle; item: Integer;
                     checked: Boolean); 

theMenu

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

item

The item number of the menu item.

checked

The CheckItem procedure sets or removes the mark of the item according to the information in the checked parameter.

To set the mark of a menu item to a checkmark, specify TRUE in the checked parameter. To remove a checkmark or any other mark from a menu item, specify FALSE in the checked parameter.

DESCRIPTION

The CheckItem procedure sets the mark of the specified menu item to a checkmark or removes any mark from the menu item.

SEE ALSO

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