Informix Error -50125: Menu separators are not allowed on the menu bar. A dash will be drawn.

Reasons / Common Causes

-50125 is raised by the ixMenu class in the Window Painter GUI builder library — per the official guidance:

This message is generated by ixMenu. Menu separators can appear only on a dropdown (pulldown) menu, not on the menu bar. Instead of a separator, a single '-' will be shown as the title of the menu item. Redo your menu to eliminate separators on the menu bar.

1. Menu separators are not allowed on the menu bar. A dash will be drawn, per the official guidance — the direct, documented condition.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Adjust the calling code to respect the constraint named in the message, per the official guidance — no other resolution is documented.

Examples

N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond the class-library condition described above.

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check the specific value, object state, or call sequence that ixMenu flags here, against the constraint the official guidance describes.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -50133 — "Cannot create a menu whose parent menu title is "-"." Another ixMenu-related condition in this set.
• -50126 — "Accelerators are not allowed on the menu bar. The accelerator will be ignored." Another ixMenu-related condition in this set.

Menu separators are not allowed on the menu bar. A dash will be drawn.