menuchoice

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

Synopsis

menuchoice ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional 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.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain menuchoice: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry, userinput.

Children

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

See Also

Related elements: accel, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, mousebutton, shortcut.

Examples

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

You can exit from GNU Emacs with C-xC-cFilesExit Emacs.