A menubar in a software application is a horizontal strip, usually located at the top of the window, that contains a series of menus. Each menu groups related commands or options, such as "File," "Edit," or "View," which the user can click to access specific functions like opening a file, copying text, or changing the display settings. Menubars help organize an application's features in a clear and accessible way.
# Key Structure We view this organisation of tools into an ordered set of menus, each in turn comprising of a set of ordered menu-items as a key conceptual structure that we seek to abstract, share and generalise.
> If an application were a book, the menubar is the table of contents.
While a mnubar can be rendered as a classic application menbar (for instance on Windows, Linux or macOS), it can also be presented as a Table of Contents for a book, or a set of buttons on a screen of a mobile application. The same logical structure can be visually expressed in many ways.
# Help Menubar Help associated each menu-item with its own multimedia wiki-page that describes the functioning of the action of the menu-tool that represent the menu-item being displayed.
These wiki-pages, when combined with the code they describe can be used to present an complete visual application as a series of wiki-pages together with buttons, videos and inteactive models that explain how to use the tools in question.
In this way the menbubar structure genuinely serves as the table-of-contents for the mulitimedia book, mobile app, or interactive web site in question.
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