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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Certification Checklist
Menu Bar (Menu Type)
[ ]Provide a menu bar if you provide any of the action choices included in
the File menu, other than Close or Exit.
[ ]Provide a menu bar if you provide any of the action choices included in
the View menu.
[ ]Place only cascading choices in a menu bar.
[ ]A cascading choice in a menu bar leads to a pull-down menu.
[ ]In conjunction with the Menu Guidelines reference page, use Table 8 to decide which choices to include in a menu bar and how to organize them.
Table 8. Menu-Bar Choices
| Mnemonic |
Item |
Keyboard Function |
|---|
| F |
File |
AltF |
| E |
Edit |
AltE |
| V |
View |
AltV |
| W |
Window |
AltW |
| H |
Help |
AltH |
[ ]In a menu bar, make < move the cursor to the choice to the left,
wrapping at the left edge within the menu bar.
[ ]In a menu bar, make > move the cursor to the choice to the right,
wrapping at the right edge within the menu bar.
[ ]In a menu bar, make V activate the cursored cascading choice,
display the associated pull-down menu, and move focus to it.
[ ]When focus is in a control in a window and the user presses F10 or Shift
Menu, navigate to the first item in the menu bar.
[ ]If a window has a menu bar, but focus is in a different spring-loaded
system originating from the client area of that window, then make pressing F10
or Shift Menu deactivate the spring-loaded system before navigating to the
first item in the menu bar.
[ ]If the focus is in a menu-bar system, make pressing F10 or Shift Menu
deactivate the system.
[ ]Place the menu bar at the top of the client area of a window and extend it
the width of the entire window.
[ ]Align menu-bar items horizontally and lay them out left to right. For
information on bidirectional and vertical language support, see Chapter
11.
[ ]Do not display a graphic (in particular, a down-arrow graphic) along with
a cascading choice in a menu-bar item.
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