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generic user preferences object: A User Preferences object that shadows the system default preferences object, and supplies user preferences for all users who are not registered for any other preferences object.

GFR symbol: A symbol that represents a text string. When GMS encounters a GFR symbol in a menu specification, it passes the symbol to GFR, which returns a string appropriate to the current language environment.

global inconsistency: An inconsistency between a menu specification and the global settings in effect when the specification is compiled.

global settings: GMS properties do not apply to any particular menu, but to GMS overall.

Global Settings object: An object that specifies a collection of global settings.

GMS icon: An icon that appears next to a menu entry label and denotes the menu entry's effect graphically.

GMS menus: Generic term for menu bars, popup menus, and cascade menus displayed by GMS

GMS Palette: A palette that contains master copies of all GMS template objects.

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