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- Introduction—Types of Menus
- Pull-Down Menus
- Hierarchical Menus
- Pop-Up Menus
- Menu Objects, Menu IDs and Item Numbers, Command IDs, and Menu Lists
- Creating Your Application's Menus
- Providing Help Balloons (Mac OS 8/9)
- Changing Menu Item Appearance
- Adding Items to a Menu
- Associating Data with Menu Items
- Handling Menu Choices
- Hiding and Showing the Menu Bar
- Accessing Menus from Alerts and Dialogs
- Main Menu Manager Constants, Data Types, and Functions
- Demonstration Program Menus1 Listing
- Demonstration Program Menus1 Comments
- Demonstration Program Menus2 Listing
- Demonstration Program Menus2 Comments
This chapter is from the book
Hierarchical Menus
A hierarchical menu is a menu which has a submenu attached to it. You should use a submenu only when you have more menus than fit in the menu bar. There should only ever be one hierarchical level, that is, there should be only one level of submenus. A menu item that is the title of a submenu should clearly represent the choices the submenu contains.
Hierarchical menus work best for providing a submenu of attributes.