Graphical user interface basics
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Menus
Description
This section describes an important aspect of the user interface. The user constantly has to
open Pages, select icons and navigate through the different functionalities of the ZIC
(Zero-Installation Craft terminal).
A menu consists of a title, that usually identifies the nature of the actions that can be
undertaken, and a list of options associated with actions.
Menu types can be classified as:
Menu bars
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Pull-down menus
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Cascading menus
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Pop-up menus
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Menu bars
Menu bars present at the top of a page's browser (under the title of the page) and above the
client area. They appear automatically along with the page. Example is given in the
Figure
opened.
Pull down menu
A pull-down menu is pulled down from a menu item present in a menu bar. To open a pull-
down menu, click on the title of the menu you need to open with the "Select" mouse
button.
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2-1. They contain the titles from which pull-down menus and cascading menus are
Menus
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Issue 3 July 2009