John Sigle
Abstract
Presenting the user of an application system with a menu of choices is a valuable approach to the human interface problem. In a complex system this may take the form of a tree of menus that is presented. This tree of menus can also be used as the basis for a top-down development of the application system. This paper describes a programming system which can be used to acquire the tree of menus and structure the development of a menu-driven application system in a top-down fashion.
Objects called augmented menus contain not only the textual representation of the choices presented the user (in three forms), but also the action to be taken for each choice. A menu-manager program accesses the specified augmented menu, displays the choices and executes the selected action. This function eleminates much of the work of the application developer.
This development system is illustrated with three applications: an information storage and retrieval system, a class-roll record-keeping system and a text-editing system.
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