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Menus

Menus provide a mechanism whereby less experienced Users of an Application Program may be guided through the set of available choices and allow a complete line of text to be generated via a single keystroke. They furthmore allow sets of program variables, rather than single variables, to have their values adjusted. For example, a set of ``switches" build into an Application Program may be named and have their states (On/Off etc.) setup prior to further execution of the Program by presenting a ``Toggle" Menu to the User and allowing him to specify the new states. Menus are discussed in detail in Chapter 6.


Liz Buckle
Fri Jan 13 17:40:55 CST 1995