# Hover/Context Menus

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_Added November 2013_

Hover/context menus, associated with image controls and any static text controls, may contain submenus. To indicate the start of a submenu, set the command string for the parent item to "\[SUB\]". To indicate the end of a submenu, define a dummy menu item whose text is "\[ENDSUB\]" and whose command field will be ignored. 

For example, to define a two level hover/context menu similar to the following:

Item 1

Item 2 > Sub-Item 1a

         Sub-Item 1b  

Item 3

Item 4 > Sub-Item 2a

         Sub-Item 2b



The definition string in the tooltip parameter should be coded something like:

TOOLTIP\$ = ">tooltip string\\"                                \&

    + "Item 1,VK\_xF101;Item 2,\[SUB\];"                        \&

    + "Sub-Item 1a,VK\_xF201;Sub-Item 1b,VK\_xF202;\[ENDSUB\],;" \&

    + "Item 3,VK\_xF103;Item 4,\[SUB\];"                        \&

    + "Sub-Item 2a,VK\_xF301;Sub-Item 2b,VK\_xF302;\[ENDSUB\],;"



Sub menus may be nested up to nine levels deep, and a single hover/context menu may contain up to 99 total sub menus.

**History**

2013 November, A-Shell 6.1.1368:  Added ability to contain submenus, and added this section to doc.