Popup Menu (Screen Elements)

The popup menu is a graphical menu which uses graphical symbols ("icons") to represent commands instead of text descriptions.

Depending on the settings chosen at Options > Mouse / Keys, it may appear at the position of the mouse pointer if you click a mouse button. The popup menu is structured in the same way as the normal menu; it has the same menus, menu entries, and submenus as the normal menu.

Choosing a command can follow the same procedure as using the text menus. Firstly, the menu is chosen from the upper area; the menu entries and submenus from that menu appear in the central area. Choosing a menu entry carries out that command, or in the case of a submenu entry, the commands from the submenu appear in the lower area. Submenu icons have small solid orange triangle in the lower right corner of submenu icons to help distinguish them. Submenu icons always show the "most important" command from that submenu.

A command, menu or submenu is chosen by clicking on its icon with the left mouse button.

The window can be closed by pressing ESC, by right-clicking inside the window or by moving the mouse far outside the window.

If tooltips are disabled, the title bar of the Popup Menu shows the description of the command or menu under the mouse pointer.

Help on this command can be called by pressing the Key F1. The icons used in the Popup Menu are the same as those used in the Toolbox and to display the current command in the Panel.