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 1-8 “Menu-Bar Choices” to decide which choices to include in a menu bar and how to organize them.

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 ↓ 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.