ring menu

A menu in which the menu items appear in a single, horizontal line. Each menu item is called a menu option. The user can press the Spacebar or Right Arrow key to make the menu cursor traverse the menu like a ring, as if the first option followed the last. In 4GL, the MENU statement creates a ring menu. The highlighted menu option is the current option. If the menu includes more options than the current 4GL window can display on a single line, the menu continues onto successive pages, with the first page following the last. The line below the Menu line can display text that describes the current option.

See also activation key, menu, menu option, page, user interaction statement.