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Menu Facilities
CA 2E provides you with virtual menus: menus that have all the function and more of program type menus, but which require no compilation, and which can be interactively created and maintained.
Menu features include:
- SAA design
- Fully interpretive, that is, no compilation is required
- Message handling, including logging
- Option and menu level Help text
- Full recursion
- Integral system security
- Trapping of Cancel requests: the menu program is a requestor
- Command request entry (optional)
- Multi-page menus (optional)
- Option confirm prompt (optional)
- Direct transfer to a named menu (optional)
- Central logging of exception messages (optional)
- Immediate exit facility (optional)
- Optional debug and syntax checking facilities
- Automatic numbering of options (optional)
- Variable text display attributes, including color
- Full screen menu editor, similar to SEU
- Menu selection functions
- Full documentation facilities, including cross-referencing
- Option authority checking
