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Now check out your new menu!

Now we'll look at the new menu, from a running application.

The menu should be arranged as follows:

Note that nothing happens when you select that color. You've designed the look of the menu system, but you must add code to make each menu option operate the way you want.

You can delete menu items:

Now we'll add a new menu.

Now navigate through the menus and see what you've got. Let's add some special effects, shall we?

Look over your menus again. Now let's assign some shortcut keys, make some of the menu items check-able, and disable a menu option.

Run the program (hit F5 or press the VCR Play button) and test the menu selections. Now we'll add the code to make the menus actually work.

Now run the application, select Text from the Message menu, type in your name, and choose OK. Fiddle around with the menus and familiarize yourself with how they work, then look back at the code and try to see how the code makes the menus do what they do.


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