# Menu ## `` - `caption` - actions: open - events: Init ## `` - `value`, `icon`, `hotkeytext`, `submenu` (name of a menu in the same view), `checkable`, `checked`, `group`, `selected` - actions: select, release - events: Select, Release - methods: getName, setSelect, toggleCheckable, setIcon ## `` ## `` - `sort`, `display-empty`, `subicon` - events: Select ## Guidance ```xml ``` - Each `menu` sits directly in the view, before the panel - never in a panel or another menu; a submenu is another menu, named by an item's `submenu`. - Open it from a button (`submenu=`), or as a context menu: a trigger on a component's ContextMenu, then `` (`open` needs the triggering pointer or key event). Give a context menu `alt`. - Trigger on the items (`component="mNew" event="Select"`); `{!}` is the item's `value`. Checkable items fire Select and Release; items with one `group` are radios. - Items from data: ``, bound by its name to the rows' parent (`select="/files"` for `file` rows); trigger on its Select and read `{!#@name}`. - `` heads a section; a divider left at an edge hides itself. `hotkeytext` is a label only. An icon-only item needs `alt`.