Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-75553219-500C-487F-8D7E-0FAF48CF1872.dita
author Dominic Pinkman <dominic.pinkman@nokia.com>
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:39:03 +0100
changeset 8 ae94777fff8f
parent 7 51a74ef9ed63
child 13 48780e181b38
permissions -rw-r--r--
Week 23 contribution of SDK documentation content. See release notes for details. Fixes bugs Bug 2714, Bug 462.

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<concept id="GUID-75553219-500C-487F-8D7E-0FAF48CF1872" xml:lang="en"><title>Submenus</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>An item in the <b>Options</b> menu can be a submenu title, leading to additional
choices that are displayed in another pop-up window (on top of the Options
menu pop-up window) as a submenu.</p>
<fig id="GUID-FD9FBC91-7A38-4A26-A8C2-A478DA9D5184">
<title>Submenu in the Options menu</title>
<image href="GUID-19E5720A-2B50-4515-AE90-A40C1BEDF4BA_d0e60568_href.png" placement="inline"/>
</fig>
<p>The submenu is opened by pressing either the left softkey (<b>Select</b>),
the Selection key, or the Arrow right key. In touch enabled device, submenu
is displayed with touch down and release on the <b>Options</b> menu item.
Scrolling and selecting within submenu window is done as in <b>Options</b> menu.</p>
<p>The user can close the submenu window when:<ul>
<li><p>Arrow left key is pressed.</p></li>
<li><p>touch is moved to another menu list item.</p></li>
<li><p>touch down and release from the <b>Options</b> menu item that it was
launched from.</p></li>
<li><p>touch down anywhere outside the submenu window.</p></li>
</ul> </p>
<p>The main menu window remains open, with the focus on the submenu title.</p>
<p>When an item in a submenu is selected, both the submenu and main menu windows
are closed.</p>
<p>The following rules apply to submenus:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>The number of items should be low, so that the user does not need to
scroll in order to see all of them. </p></li>
<li><p>Functions should not occur sometimes in the main level and at other
times in a submenu. Items that are in a submenu should always be found in
the same submenu. </p></li>
<li><p>Only one submenu level is allowed; that is, a submenu cannot contain
another submenu.</p></li>
</ul>
</conbody></concept>