Add menu items

Menus provide both a point of departure and a point of return for your user. By using interaction and navigation icons, you can easily create a branching flowline that allows a user to follow nonlinear sequences, and a navigational structure that includes hot spots the user can click to go to another segment.



  1. On the Main Menu flowline, add an interaction icon below Lesson Title and name it Select a Topic.

    An interaction icon not only lets users interact with a piece; it also behaves like a display icon by showing graphics and text in the Presentation window.

    You'll attach icons to this interaction that compose the Main Menu.

  2. Double-click the Select a Topic icon to open it, and select the Text tool from the toolbox.
  3. In an earlier section, you changed the default text to Arial. Use the Text menu to verify that Arial is still the selected font. For the text size, select 14 point, and select Bold for the style.
  4. If the Modes palette isn't open, select Window > Inspectors > Modes. Select Inverse and close the Modes palette.
  5. Click near the upper left corner of the Presentation window and type Main Menu, then press Enter three times.
  6. Select Text > Size and select 10 point.
  7. In the Presentation window, type 1. Photographic Terminology, and press Enter twice.
  8. Type 2. Parts of a Camera, and again press Enter twice.



  9. Type 3. Take Some Pictures, and press Enter twice.
  10. Type 4. Camera Quiz.
  11. Click the square text margin handle (not the dark triangle) at the right end of the margin line, and drag it toward the end of the word Terminology.




 

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