Operator Usage

Vertical Menu Selections

When INMEMO is used to select an item from a vertical light-bar menu or list, the choices will appear in a single column with one of them highlighted with a reverse video bar or an arrow. If there are more options than appear at once, there will be a small indicator in the lower right hand corner of the border. To make the selection, move the highlighted bar to the desired item and hit Enter, Tab or Space. (Some applications may distinguish between these ways of selecting an item.) You can move the highlighted marker either with the up and down arrows or by typing the first character(s) of the item description. In some menus, (called fast menus), you don't have to hit any of the explicit selection keys. Instead, the selection is made as soon as you type enough characters to unambiguously select an item. (Typically these kind of menus have unique letters for all the choices, allowing the selection to be made with a single keystroke.) In normal menus, typing characters will position the highlighted bar but you always have to hit Enter, Tab or Enter to make the selection. Note that when there are several items starting with the same letter(s), you may have to type many characters to position the highlight on the desired item. As soon as you type a letter that does not match, or you use an arrow key, the matching logic starts over from the first character. A little experimentation with the TSTNFL program (supplied with INMEMO as a demonstration) will illustrate the concept.