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The diversity and unique functionality of application programs forces program developers to group individual functions into function groups in order to display them in detail as required. For example, in a text program there is a menu bar with the menu items for"File", "Edit", "View", "Insert", "Format" etc., behind which various functions are hidden.

These functions are called up by activating the corresponding function group. This opens a window with the individual functions.

If the menu bar is at the top of the screen and the window opens downwards, then it is a pull-down menu. If another menu window can be opened within the pull-down menu, it is a drop-down menu.

Pull-down and drop-down menus in Corel Photo Paint

Pull-down and drop-down menus in Corel Photo Paint

If, on the other hand, the menu bar is arranged vertically on the left edge of the screen and the window opens towards the center of the screen, it is called a fly-out menu, and if it opens from the bottom up, like the Start menu in Windows, it is called a pull-up menu.

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Englisch: pull down menue
Updated at: 24.10.2006
#Words: 174
Links: diversity, application (app), program, order, display
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