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$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $
menuchoice — A selection or series of selections from a menu
menuchoice ::= (shortcut?, (guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|interface)+)
Name | Type | Default | |||
| moreinfo |
| "none" |
The following parameter entities contain menuchoice:
| Parameter Entities | ||
%cptr.char.mix; | %ndxterm.char.mix; | %para.char.mix; |
%refinline.char.mix; | %refname.char.mix; | %tbl.entry.mdl; |
%tech.char.class; | %title.char.mix; | |
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.
Formatted inline. The MoreInfo attribute
can help generate a link or query to retrieve additional information.
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.
These elements contain menuchoice:
action, application, attribution, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, database, emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams, funcsynopsisinfo, function, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, hardware, interfacename, keycap, lineannotation, link, literal, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, option, optional, para, parameter, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, property, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, systemitem, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink, userinput.
The following elements occur in menuchoice:
guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, interface, shortcut.
If MoreInfo is set to RefEntry,
it implies that a RefEntry exists which further describes the
MenuChoice.
accel, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, mousebutton, shortcut.
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
You can exit from GNU Emacs with
<menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keysym>C-x</keysym><keysym>C-c</keysym></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Files</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Exit Emacs</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
</para>You can exit from GNU Emacs with → (C-x-C-c).
Compare this example with the similar example in GUIMenu.
Here the KeyCombo and MenuChoice elements
are required to process thier content in some intelligent way in
order to produce useful output.
For additional examples, see also
shortcut.
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