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Re: Getting user's choices from a menu

• Posted by Beaumont Furniss <bfurniss at IHUG.CO.NZ> Aug 13, 2000
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If you could construct something like this , that's easy to setup and
  use , you'd have a number of persons interested .
   This is probably something that many attempt at sometime , I know I
  have ,  with varying degrees of success.
   The conceptual difficulty is in making a generally usable , easily
  constructed menu.


On 2000-08-13 EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU said:
 EU>I'd appreciate some ideas about user-friendly and fool-proof ways
 EU>of doing this:
 EU>1    present the user with a menu of choices (not mutually
 EU>exclusive): eg   MENU OF USER CHOICES
 EU>A   this
 EU>B   that
 EU>C   other
 EU>2    get user's choice(s):
 EU>eg   ENTER THE LETTER (A,B,C) OF YOUR CHOICE(S):
 EU>3    suppose the choices are A and C. Is it preferable to read them
 EU>as a "unit", or as separate items? Should I insist on spaces
 EU>between choices? If so, what happens if the user enters AC instead
 EU>of A C? What if the menu choices were numerals (1,2,3) instead of
 EU>letters? Would the code differ? Would there be any different issues
 EU>to take into account?
 EU>Thank you
 EU>Alex Caracatsanis

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