Menu Editor

Menus are a critical tool in all professional applications. 4D has created a powerful editor to help you build them as easily as possible.

Menus… à la carte!

You can set up all of the menus for your application, as well as their related sub-menus, using a single screen.

Automation is also on the menu!

Associating any of 27 pre-set actions to your menus and sub-menus requires absolutely no programming, just a click of the mouse. You can also set actions to browse through records, call the maintenance center, and more. If that's not enough choice for you, you can associate your own methods as well as the pre-set ones.

You can even set per-platform keyboard shortcuts!

Strong access controls

User and Group access control managent tools are integrated to make adding security easy. All you need to do is decide who gets access to which menu or sub-menu items and 4D automatically takes care of the rest.

Menus with style

The Menu Editor also lets you apply standard styles and icons to menus for better UI integration.

Designing a toolbar instead of a drop-down menu is also very easy: All you need to do is associate an icon to an action to add more functions to the toolbar. You'd be hard-pressed to find an easier way.

Menus for every language

4D supports the xliff standard for localization, which allows you to automatically localize your menus in every language supported by your application. 4D also selects the default language on launch.

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