CHUNK-MENU documentationD. Austin Henderson, Jr.Initially released: May 11, 1983Last revised: May 11, 1983CHUNK-MENU (and .DCOM) permits the creation and use of pop-up menus forlong lists of items. The user sees one "chunk" of the list at a time. Menu items at the top andbottom allow him to move backward and forward in the list (to preceding or following chunks) andto "thumb" to a desired chunk via a menu of "first lines". Comments and suggestions welcome.CHUNK.MENU.CREATE (ITEMS CHUNK.COUNT TITLE CENTERFLG MENUFONTITEMWIDTH ITEMHEIGHT MENUBORDERSIZE MENUOUTLINESIZE) Creates a chunkmenu for the menu items ITEMS. The chunks are menus with no more than CHUNK.COUNTitems. The menus have menu characteristics given by the rest of the parameters (see the discussionof menus in the Interlisp-D User's Guide). Returns the chunk menu.CHUNK.MENU.MENU (CHUNK.MENU POSITION) Activates (pops-up) CHUNK.MENUcentered at POSITION. If position is not specified, the position of the cursor is used. The user canselect items, or move to other chunks by using the up, down, and thumbing entries. All chunksappear centered at POSITION or the original position of the cursor (prevents the menus from"walking" across the display. When an item is selected, the value returned is as specified for itemsof menus. CHUNK.MENU is modified so that the next activation will start in the chunk visiblewhen the selction was made (it remembers which chunk the last selection was made in). bp _q ]( [: Vpqpq TW R4, P:! N Jjp% H|4q  F E D3/ BB >JpT%q <\L :nR 8#rq! 6M 4G 2U 2o=0 TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN dj/nHCHUNK-MENU.bravo AHenderson.PAMay 11, 1983 2:29 PM