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select: To depress the mouse button over an object, or to move the mouse over it with the mouse button already depressed. Selecting an enabled cascading entry displays its cascade menu.

selection callback procedure: A procedure that GMS calls whenever a particular menu entry is selected or unselected.

separator: A horizontal divider that separates the panel of a transient menu into two sections.

Separator Template: A template placed between two entry templates to tell GMS to draw a horizontal line in the menu between the two entries that they specify.

Show Workspace Template: A template that displays a workspace at a specified location.

snap grid: An invisible grid on a GMS workspace. When a workspace has a snap grid, GMS positions new and moved template objects to appear at vertices of the grid.

static menu specification: A menu specification that completely defines a menu in advance of its compilation and display.

Sticky menus: A menu navigation mode in which a cascade menu appears when a cascading menu entry is chosen.

Submenu Connection: Connects a root template to the first entry template in its menu, or a cascading entry template to the first entry template in its cascade menu.

SubPanel Container: A template that provides a subworkspace for holding part of a menu specification.

Switch Menu Bar Template: A predefined subclass of Dynamic Cascade Template that displays the labels of all compiled menu bars, and allows the user to choose which should be the current menu bar.

system default preferences: The user preferences specified by the current system default preferences object.

system default preferences object: A predefined User Preferences object that provides preferences for users to whom no other User Preferences object applies.

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