Progress
Language Tutorial
for Windows
Menus and Menu Options
Most of the tools in the Progress toolset have a menu bar. The menu bar appears at the top of the tool display and provides access to most of the functionality in the tool. Table 2–2 provides a short description of the functionality available on each menu in the Procedure Editor.
Navigating the Menu Bar and Choosing Menus Options
To choose a menu, point to the menu title on the menu bar with the mouse pointer and click. A pull-down menu with a list of options appears. Choose an option by clicking it. To close a menu, click the menu name or anywhere outside the menu.
Figure 2–3 displays the File pull-down menu of the Procedure Editor.
Figure 2–3: File Pull-down Menu
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You can execute menu options using your cursor keys. For example, to exit the Procedure Editor, you can choose the Exit menu command from the File menu. The following information explains how to choose the Exit option with the cursor keys:
- Press ENTER-MENUBAR (ALT) to activate the menu bar.
- Use the ¨ and
keys to navigate through the menus on the menu bar and highlight the File menu.
- Press the Ø key to pull down the menu.
- Use the Ø and ¦ keys to navigate through the menu options on the File menu and highlight the Exit menu option. Then press RETURN or ENTER to choose the highlighted menu option.
Another way to execute a menu option is to use mnemonics. A mnemonic is a character associated with a menu or menu option. If the menu bar is active, you can type a mnemonic to display a menu or to execute a menu option. All menus and menu options in the Progress toolset have a mnemonic. The mnemonic is the underlined character from the label of the menu option and must be unique within a menu or the menu bar. For example, the mnemonic for the Help menu is the character “H”.
The following steps describe how to choose the Exit option from the File menu using mnemonics:
Finally, you can also execute menu options without entering the menu bar by using accelerator keys. Accelerator keys are the quickest way to access a menu option. When a menu option has an accelerator key associated with it, the key is listed next to the option on the menu. For example, F6 is the accelerator key for the Save option. Many of the Progress key functions shown in Table 2–2 are also accelerator keys; that is, they execute menu commands.
The mouse is the best way to explore menus in a tool and find out about available menu options. Once you become familiar with a tool, accelerator keys offer a quicker way to get things done.
Progress Menu Conventions
All menu bars, menus, and menu options in the Progress toolset share several important characteristics:
- The menu option that exits a tool is always the last menu option on the first menu.
- A Help menu is available on all menu bars in the Progress toolset and is always the last menu on the menu bar.
- Some menu options have symbols that provide information about how they work. Menu options that do not use symbols are commands and simply execute the function that they represent.
Table 2–3 introduces Progress menu symbols.
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