Menus

Menus allow your users to select answers from the choices you provide — up to 200 can be entered for any single menu. The maximum number of menus you can have in one screen is 100. Each choice has its own mark. Marks can be as small as 0.01 or as large as 9998. Marks can also be negative.

Results Text

The Results Text Area in the Screen Inspector is where you can enter text you want to appear in the user's results. This text will also appear in the results collected centrally using a NetSeries webserver.

Dynamic linking. If you wish you can dynamically link text in a Text Area to results text for the Menu. In this way, your results text is updated every time you change the Text Area to which it is linked. To do this just enter the name of the Text Area (as it appears in the Screen Inspector), but with square brackets either side of the name. For example, if you wished to link the text in a Text Area called Text 1 to a menu's results text, then all you have to do is enter [Text 1] in the space for Results Text in the menu tab of the Screen Inspector.

Copying text. You can click on a Text Area using the right mouse button and copy the text to the Results Text Area for a Menu. You can also double-click on a Text Area to edit it, select just some of the text, and then right-click to copy just the selected text to the Results Text Area for a Menu.

Other Controls

Lock. If lock is selected then you will not be able to move the Menu using the mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard — it prevents accidental movements. However, you can still move and resize a Menu by entering values in the Left, Top, Width and Height fields.

Name. You can give a Menu more or less any name you wish. However, if you are swapping files between SimpleSet and Editor then keeping names such as Menu 1, Menu 2, etcetera is important because SimpleSet uses these names to match Text Areas to Menus.

Style and Visual Appearance

The font, font size, font colour, background colour and border are automatically set according to the Style setting. Click here to find out more about creating your own style. If you wish to directly alter the font, font size and other settings then change the Style setting to Custom and the controls you need will appear.

Other topics

Entering Answers

Useful shortcut: You can copy a range of answers onto the Pasteboard and simply drag them onto a Menu. Click here for more information on the Pasteboard.

Copying Answers

Useful shortcut: You can click on a Menu with the right mouse button and copy all of the answers from the Menu you have clicked on to one you select from the pop-up menu that will appear.

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