Cascade menu
Source: Motif
Aliases: Cascade button (Motif)
Related: Menu
SCO Visual Tcl commands: VtMenuBar, VtOptionMenu
A collection of menu choices related to a selected menu
choice, which provides a hierarchical organization to a pull-down
menu.
Cascade menus:
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Group related menu choices together in a sub-menu
to reduce the number of choices displayed in a pull-down menu.
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Display an arrow pointing in the direction the cascade appears
(in the selected (parent) menu choice).
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Show the cascaded menu if the user selects the parent
choice and moves the mouse pointer in the direction of the arrow.
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Use no more than two levels of cascades from a menu.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 27 April 2004