Main Menu

In this chapter we are going to learn about the Main Menu

Introduction

We can create this program quickly using the Quick Start component

Program Steps

After selecting the (Main Menu) template, we will get the next steps in the Goal Designer

The Steps Tree:

While True
        Print  (New Line)
        Print Main Menu (New Line)
        Print -------------- (New Line)
        Print (1) Say Hello (New Line)
        Print (2) About (New Line)
        Print (3) Exit (New Line)
        Print  (New Line)
        Input nOption
        Switch nOption
                Case 1
                        Print Hello! (New Line)
                Case 2
                        Print Just a simple program! (New Line)
                Case 3
                        Print End of program! (New Line)
                        Shutdown 0
                Else
                        Print bad option... (New Line)
        End of Switch
End of While Loop

Creating the Program

To create this program we will use the next components

• While

• Print Text

• Get Input

• Switch

• Case

• Shutdown

• Else

In the begining the Steps Tree is empty

Select the (While Loop) component

Enter the data in the Interaction Page

The Steps Tree will be updated

Select the (Print Text) component

In the Interaction Page, Just click OK

We will print an empty line!

The Steps Tree will be updated

We will print the Menu Items

Select the (Get Input) component

We will use the (nOption) variable to get the input from the User!

Using (Switch) we will determine what to do based on the selected option

Select the (Shutdown) component

Using this component we can close our program!

Now we have the final Steps Tree in our program