You can create a menu bar for any OpenROAD Workbench frame. A menu bar contains a set of pull-down menus available on the frame. A pull-down menu is a list of menu items from which the user makes a selection. Menu items each provide an operation (or command) by which the user communicates with the frame. Menu items are also called menu buttons.

You can provide 4GL code for a menu item—called a menu field script—to specify the operation that is performed when a user selects the menu item. For example, when the end user clicks File, Close in a frame, the program performs cleanup operations and closes the frame.

You use the Menu Editor to create pull-down menus for a frame. You can view and change the appearance of the menu as you are designing it. For each pull-down menu and menu item, you can specify their position, properties, appearance, and frame modes and biases.