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Re: Getting user's choices from a menu

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Aug 12, 2000
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On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I'd appreciate some ideas about user-friendly and fool-proof ways of doing
> this:
> 1    present the user with a menu of choices (not mutually exclusive):
> eg   MENU OF USER CHOICES
>      A   this
>      B   that
>      C   other
>
> 2    get user's choice(s):
> eg   ENTER THE LETTER (A,B,C) OF YOUR CHOICE(S):
>
> 3    suppose the choices are A and C. Is it preferable to read them as a
> "unit", or as separate items? Should I insist on spaces between choices? If
> so, what happens if the user enters AC instead of A C? What if the menu
> choices were numerals (1,2,3) instead of letters? Would the code differ?
> Would there be any different issues to take into account?

The user-friendly way to do this would be with a series of checkboxes.
There's a small (5k) file in the Euphoria archives which provides this and
other simple controls for DOS or Linux - search for "simple text mode
interface".

Regards,
Irv