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Menus allow users to view or choose from a list of choices and commands that your application provides. You can use the Menu Manager to create, display, and manage the drawing and behavior of pull-down, hierarchical, and contextual menus. Carbon introduces changes to the Menu Manager, including new Apple menu behavior, opaque menu data, universal command IDs for accessing menu item data, Carbon MDEFs, and new APIs for working with menu and menu item attributes and for enabling and disabling menu items.

Menu Manager Reference This document describes the functions, data types, and constants defined by the Menu Manager.   Carbon Menu Manager Preliminary Reference This supplementary document describes newly introduced Menu Manager APIs that are available only through Carbon. (In other words, these APIs can be called on versions of Mac OS 8 and 9 only through CarbonLib.)   Adopting the Aqua Interface (Preliminary) [PDF] This document describes how, in the process of creating a Cocoa application or revising your Mac OS 8 and 9 application for Carbon, you can take full advantage of Aqua in Mac OS X.