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Mac OS 8 Menu Manager Reference

Menu Manager Reference

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.

Portions of the Menu Manager application programming interface (API) are new, changed, or not recommended with Mac OS 8 or Appearance Manager 1.0. See the following sections for descriptions of the changes to the Menu Manager:

• Contextual Menu Gestalt Selector Constants
• Menu Manager Functions
• Menu Manager Data Types
• Menu Manager Constants

For descriptions of the parts of the Menu Manager API that are unaffected by Mac OS 8 or Appearance Manager 1.0, see Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials. For a description of the Mac OS 8.5 Menu Manager API, see Mac OS 8.5 Menu Manager Reference.