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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