It also describes in detail the appearance and behavior of these menu types including how menu items should be worded and what symbols you can use in menus. This chapter defines the items in the standard menus most applications use and the standard keyboard equivalents for those menu items. The user can browse through menus or choose an item.
Menus appear in several forms in the interface.
Pull-down menus are available in the menu bar. Hierarchical menus include submenus that descend from pull-down menu items. Some menus can be torn off from the menu bar to become palettes. Pop-up menus generally appear in dialog boxes. Macintosh Toolbox Essentials for information about implementing menus in your application.