Learning to create menu items in desktop app

Hi,

I’m trying to learn adding menu items to my application but the Xojo documentation doesn’t explicitly teach you how to build them.

I have the default menus that Xojo starts with, and I added a Page Setup menu item to my File menu where I want to make setting changes.

When I run the app, Quit has automatically relocated underneath the menu for the name of the application (I did read in the design tips how/why this is done for Windows compatibility).

My Page Setup option appears by itself on the File menu, grayed out, and is set to Auto Enabled.

How do I attach code to my Page Setup menu item?

I have a button on a screen in my app that performs this function as follows:

//Var s As String
Var pageSetup As PrinterSetup
pageSetup = New PrinterSetup
If pageSetup.ShowPageSetupDialog Then
  App.s = pageSetup.Settings
End If

// save printer settings to file

Var f As FolderItem
Var bs As BinaryStream

// get a folderitem
f = New FolderItem("Whole File", FolderItem.PathModes.Native)

// create a binary file with the type of text (defined in the file types dialog)
bs = BinaryStream.Create(f, True)

// check to see if it was created
If bs <> Nil Then
  //write the contents of the editField
  bs.Write(App.s.ConvertEncoding(Encodings.UTF8))
  
  // close the binaryStream
  bs.Close
End If

But for proper design, I want to move this to a Page Setup menu option. If someone can point me in the right direction, thank you!!!

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