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<meta name="DC.Title" content="Menu design" />
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<h1 class="topictitle1">Menu design</h1>
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<div><p>Define your own menus on the system. There are three
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types of user-defined menus: display file menus, UIM (reference) menus, and
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program menus.</p>
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<p>To use an application system, users need to deal with a
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lot of menus and displays. When an application is being translated from one
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language to another, a large portion of the literal text to be translated
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comes from menus.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Display file menu</h4><p>A display file menu uses a display
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defined by DDS to present a menu format. The menu functions are controlled
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by a menu object that contains the commands used to run each of the menu options.
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The following figure shows how display file menus are created for different
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national language versions.</p>
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<br /><img src="rbags510.gif" alt="Display file menu for national language version" /><br /></div>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Program menu</h4><p>A program menu uses programs to present
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the menu format (defined by DDS) and to provide functions necessary to run
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the menu options. The following figure shows how program menus are created
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in different national language versions.</p>
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<br /><img src="rbags513.gif" alt="how program menus are created" /><br /></div>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Menu translation</h4><p>To allow for easy translation into
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national language versions of your menus:</p>
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<ul><li>Keep the literal text of menus external by holding the constant text as
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externally defined message descriptions in a message file and by incorporating
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the text into a menu file when the program is run.</li>
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<li>Be aware of the expansion space needed when a menu is translated from
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one language to the next. Leave space for translation expansion when you design
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your menus.</li>
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<li>Be aware of cultural conventions when date, time, or edited fields are
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displayed on the menu.</li>
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<li>Use numerals 0 through 9, instead of uppercase and lowercase English letters
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(A through Z), as the option fields for selection. Numeric characters are
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more standard among different languages.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbagsuseint.htm" title="A user interface is the part of a software product that your customer actually sees.">User interfaces</a></div>
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