Creating a menu

From the object navigator, click on “menus”, and create new, to create a new menu module.

Give your menu module a name and save it. Here it has been given the name “student_menu”.

In the module created, go to “menu” and click “create”. Give your menu a name, here it has been called “st_menu”.

Right click the menu, and go to menu editor.

The following screen will appear.

Write out the items in the menu. To create an item below click “create down”, as above. To create an item to the side, click “create right”. To delete an item click “delete”.

Above is the final design of the menu. What remains is to write the PL/SQL code behind each of the commands in the menu.

Right click each item, and go to PL/SQL editor.

After you write the code click compile as shown above.

CODE PL/SQL CODE COMMAND Commit; To save Open_form ('E:\forms\COURSE.FMX'); To open a form CLOSE_FORM ('E:\forms\COURSE.FMX‘); To close a form

To add your menu to your forms Go to each form’s property palette add the path of the menu saved, as shown below