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J. M. WillmanBeginning PyQthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5857-6_5

5. Menus, Toolbars, and More

Joshua M. Willman1 
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Hampton, VA, USA
 

As you add more and more features to your applications, you will need some way to present all of the individual options to the user. A menu is a list of commands that a computer program can perform presented in a more manageable and organized fashion. No matter what type of device or application you are using or what kind of menu system it has, if it has a menu in place, its role is to help you navigate through the various operations in order to help you select the tasks you wish to perform.

Graphical user interfaces have numerous kinds of menus, such as context menus or pull-down menus ...

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