12.1 Conceptual Overview of Menus and Dialogs

CLIM provides three powerful menu routines for allowing user to interact with an application through various kinds of menus and dialogs:

• menu-choose is a straightforward menu generator that provides a quick way to construct menus. You can call it with a list of menu items. (For a complete definition of menu items, see the function menu-choose.)
• menu-choose-from-drawer is a lower-level routine that allows the user much more control in specifying the appearance and layout of a menu. You can call it with a window and a drawing function. Use this function for more advanced, customized menus.
• accepting-values enables you to build a dialog. Unlike menus, you can specify several items that can be individually selected or modified within the dialog before dismissing it.To abort the dialog, press control-z. To exit the dialog, unless you are editing the field, press control-]. These key bindings can be changed by using add-keystroke-to-command-table and remove-keystroke-from-command-table.