Dialog: Customize: Menu Permalink

Function: With this dialog, you define the structure and contents of the user interface.

Call: “Tools  Customize” command, “Menu” tab

When you click “OK” to close the dialog, the changes are visible in the menu bar of the CODESYS user interface.

Table 717: “Menu”

Display of currently defined menus, submenus, and included commands

CODESYS identifies the caption of a menu or submenu by the _cds_icon_customize_menu.png symbol. The layout from top to bottom corresponds to the layout displayed later in the CODESYS menu.

“Add Command”

Can be selected when a command is selected

Adds a command above the selected command

Opens the “Add Command” dialog

Use the “Add Command” dialog to select one or more commands.

Left part: List of categories

Right part: List of commands in the selected category

“Add Separator”

Inserts a separator above the selected command

“Add Popup Menu”

Adds a popup menu above the selected menu, submenu, or command

Opens the “Add Popup Menu” dialog

“Edit Popup Menu”

Opens the “Add Popup Menu” dialog

“Reset”

Resets the entire menu to the default settings

“Load”

Loads the settings from a stored file (<file name>.opt.menu)

Table 718: “Add Popup Menu”

CODESYS displays a new menu in the menu bar only when the menu contains at least one command.

“Default text”

Select this option when localization is available.

“Localized texts”

List of languages and localized texts

“Add Language”

Opens a list box for the language

CODESYS displays the selected language in the “Localized texts” area. Use the “Text” column to specify the localized texts.

For more information, see: ⮫ “Customizing Menus ”