menuchoice

menuchoice — A selection or series of selections from a menu.

Synopsis

Sequence of:
- shortcut?
- One or more of:

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

In applications that present graphical user interfaces, it is often necessary to select an item, or a series of items, from a menu in order to accomplish some action. The menuchoice element provides a wrapper to contain the complete combination of selections.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

A menuchoice may generate arrows or other punctuation between multiple GUI elements. The shortcut may be suppressed, or sometimes it is presented in parentheses after the rest of the items.

Parents

This element occurs in 50 elements.

Children

The following elements occur in menuchoice: guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, shortcut.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example menuchoice</title>
    
  4 <para>You can exit from GNU Emacs with 
    <menuchoice>
  6   <shortcut>
        <keycombo><keysym>C-x</keysym><keysym>C-c</keysym></keycombo>
  8   </shortcut>
      <guimenu>Files</guimenu>
 10   <guimenuitem>Exit Emacs</guimenuitem>
    </menuchoice>.
 12 </para>
    
 14 </article>

You can exit from GNU Emacs with

<menuchoice>C-x-C-cFilesExit Emacs</menuchoice>


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