Rice Lake TransAct 1.0 - Manual (Page 10)

6 Getting Started Using Windows
Closing a Menu
To close a pull-down menu, move the pointer back up to the
menu bar and pull down a different menu.
Menu Standards
All Windows applications follow certain standards when listing menu
items. The following lists various standards found when using Transact
menu items and other Windows applications.
• Dimmed commands appear when the command is unavailable
at the current time.
• Cascading menu indicator When a command that has a triangle
after it is selected, another menu appears with more commands.
These menus are called cascading menus. In Transact, the
Utilities command on the Admin menu is a cascading menu.
Using Dialog Boxes (Windows and Tables)
Transact was written to use dialog boxes for the entire program. For
simplicity, all dialog boxes are referred to as windows throughout this
manual. All of the information necessary to run Transact is entered into
these dialog box windows.
Moving within Dialog Boxes
Selecting a command from the menu bar or a pull-down menu brings
up a dialog box. For example, selecting Backup from the cascading
Utilities command on the Admin... pull-down menu...
Using Dialog Box Windows
brings up the Backup Database window (dialog box) as shown follow-
ing: