Informix Error -50133: Cannot create a menu whose parent menu title is "-".

Reasons / Common Causes

-50133 is raised by the ixMenu class in the Window Painter GUI builder library — per the official guidance:

This message is generated by ixMenu. You cannot create a pulldown menu whose title is '-' because this conflicts with the use of '-' as a menu separator, and separators cannot contain other menu items. This rule is true even in the case of a '-' item on the menu bar.

1. Cannot create a menu whose parent menu title is "-", 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

• -50126 — "Accelerators are not allowed on the menu bar. The accelerator will be ignored." Another ixMenu-related condition in this set.
• -50125 — "Menu separators are not allowed on the menu bar. A dash will be drawn." Another ixMenu-related condition in this set.

Cannot create a menu whose parent menu title is "-".