Special Menu Features

So far, this chapter has discussed “standard” menus, which drop down from a menu bar, and which contain items the user selects using the mouse, the ARROW keys, or command mnemonics. In addition to these menu features, Windows provides the following special features:

Accelerator keys, which provide a keyboard shortcut for selecting menu items

Cascading menus, which let you have several levels of pop-up menus

Floating pop-up menus, which are normal pop-up menus except that they can appear anywhere on the screen (usually at the current mouse position)

Customized checkmarks, which let you use your own bitmaps for checkmarks instead of the standard Windows checkmark

The rest of this section explains how to use these features.