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Mac 101: The Menu Bar

Feast your eyes on the top of your screen. See that semi-transparent bar that spans across the entire width of your desktop? That's the menu bar—a vital component to your everyday Mac life. Though you can't tell by just looking at it, the menu bar hosts many functions and commands to complete your tasks at hand.

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DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)													     DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtMainSetAreas - Sets up or adds the menu bar, command window, work window, and scroll bar widgets to the main window widget of the appli-
       cation.

Syntax
       void DwtMainSetAreas(widget, menu_bar, work_window,
			    command_window, horizontal_scroll_bar,
			    vertical_scroll_bar)
	    Widget widget;
	    Widget menu_bar;
	    Widget work_window, command_window;
	    Widget horizontal_scroll_bar, vertical_scroll_bar;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the main window widget ID.

       menu_bar  Specifies the widget ID for the menu bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only  after  creating
		 an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNmenuBar.

       work_window
		 Specifies  the widget ID for the work window to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only after creat-
		 ing an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNworkWindow.

       command_window
		 Specifies the widget ID for the command window to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID only after cre-
		 ating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute name associated with this argument is DwtNcommandWindow.

       horizontal_scroll_bar
		 Specifies  the scroll bar widget ID for the horizontal scroll bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this
		 ID only after creating an instance of the main window widget.	The attribute name associated with this argument  is  DwtNhorizon-
		 talScrollBar.

       vertical_scroll_bar
		 Specifies the scroll bar widget ID for the vertical scroll bar to be associated with the main window widget.  You can set this ID
		 only after creating an instance of the main window widget.  The attribute  name  associated  with  this  argument  is	DwtNverti-
		 calScrollBar.

Description
       The  DwtMainSetAreas  function  sets up or adds the menu bar, work window, command window, and scroll bar widgets to the application's main
       window widget.  You must set these areas up before the main window widget is realized, that is, before calling the  X  intrinsics  function
       XtRealizeWidget.

       Each area is optional; therefore, you can pass NULL to one or more of these arguments.  The title bar is provided by the window manager.

See Also
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															     DwtMainSetAreas(3Dwt)
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