About Menus And Toolbars. A menubar is a common part of a GUI application. There are specific APIs for menus and toolbars but you should usually deal with them together creating GioSimpleAction s that you can refer to in both menus and toolbars.
Menus and toolbars are convenient graphical ways to present your commands to users. Menus and toolbars are user interface elements that allow the user to do something. When a user clicks a menu in the bar the menu drops down and the user can select from the menu items which cause some action to happen in the application.
The Windows Forms framework provides support for both menus and toolbars.
The ComponentOne Menus and Toolbars for WinForms suite of components integrate menus and toolbars into a single system allowing you to reuse the same objects and code for menu items and toolbar buttons. Icons in the toolbar also cause some action to happen in the application. Toolbars contain icons that provide quick access to a set of related tools such as tools for formatting elements of the diagram on the Formatting toolbar. Menus and toolbars are user interface elements that allow the user to do something.
