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# Menu

The Menu is a widget that contains different widgets to create a classic menu structure. The menu is used from different widget, that needs a menu structure e.q. MenuBar.

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## Features

- On demand scrolling if the menu doesn't fit on the screen
- Menu items with text and/or icon.
- Each menu item can have a command for keyboard support.
- Menu items can have submenus.

The menu can contain different item types:

- Normal buttons
- CheckBox buttons
- RadioButtons
- Separators

## Description

The Menu widget is used in combination with other widgets. The other widgets has an instance from the menu and it's shown by user interactions. Each item in a menu can get an command key, that is used to get keyboard support for the user.

Here a some widgets that use a menu for user interaction:

- MenuBar
- Toolbar
- MenuButton
- SplitButton
- List

The package `qx.ui.menu` has a collection of needed classes for creating a menu structure. The `qx.ui.menu.Menu` class is the container class for the menu structure and has items as child. Here are some item that can be used to create the structure:

- Button
- CheckBox
- RadioButton
- Separator

To create a submenu structure, each item (but not separator) can contain a menu to realize the submenu structure.

## Diagram

## Demos

Here are some links that demonstrate the usage of the widget:

- Some different widgets that use the menu functionality
- Menus used in a MenuBar

## API

Here is a link to the API of the Widget:
qx.ui.menu.Menu