# Menu `deft/stdext/menu` is a type-only module: it defines the shared `%MenuItem` type used by every app menu bar. There are no functions.

import "deft/stdext/menu" as menu

Once imported, the type registers runtime-wide and is constructed unqualified. ## Type | Type | Fields | |---|---| | `MenuItem` | `label :string`, `action :string`, `shortcut :string` | - `:action` names a function evaluated in the app's runtime when the item is selected. - `:shortcut` is a display string only — the key is still bound in the app's key handler. The editor derives it automatically: at menu build time each item resolves the chord bound to its action's command (registry + user keytable overrides + driver delta + extension and mode keymaps), so editor extension menus should leave it `""`. Other apps set it by hand. ## Usage

def get-menu {||
    %{ "Edit" @{
        %MenuItem{ label "Delete" action "delete-selected" shortcut "Ctrl+D" } } } }

`tui/set-menu` accepts either the plain map form above or an ordered form:

%{ "File" %{ :order 1 :items @{ %MenuItem{ … } } } }

`tui/menu-update` re-evaluates the app's zero-arg `get-menu` and re-applies it, which is how menus follow state changes. Don't confuse this with `dialog/menu`, the modal picker — see Dialogs. ## See Also - App Platform — menus, pies, lifecycle - Dialogs — `dialog/menu` and friends - Deftlet — the `get-menu` contract method