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Using Special Features of the Graphical User Interface
To choose a pulldown menu item using the
keyboard
• To initially display a pulldown menu, press and hold the menu select key (for
example, the "Extend char" key on an HP 9000 keyboard), and then type the
underlined character in the menu label on the menu bar. (For example, "f" for
"File". Type the character in lower case only.)
• To move right to another pulldown menu after having initially displayed a menu,
press the right-arrow key.
• To move left to another pulldown menu after having initially displayed a menu,
press the left-arrow key.
• To move down one menu item within a menu, press the down-arrow key.
• To move up one menu item within a menu, press the up-arrow key.
• To choose a menu item, type the character in the menu item label that is underlined.
Or, move to the menu item using the arrow keys and then press the carriage return
key on the keyboard.
• To cancel a displayed menu, press the Escape key.
The interface supports keyboard mnemonics and the use of the arrow keys to move
within or between menus. For each menu or menu item, the underlined character in
the menu or menu item label is the keyboard mnemonic character. Notice the
keyboard mnemonic is not always the first character of the label. If a menu item
has a cascade menu attached to it, then typing the keyboard mnemonic displays the
cascade menu.
Some menu items have an ellipsis ("...") as part of the menu label. An ellipsis
indicates that the menu item will display a dialog or other box when the menu item
is chosen.
Dialog boxes support the use of the keyboard as well. To direct keyboard input to a
dialog box, you must position the mouse pointer somewhere inside the boundaries
of the dialog box. That is because the interface keyboard focus policy is set to
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