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A single line action bar process might appear like this:
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File Edit Options Help
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| File Edit Options Help |
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If a user selected the first action bar choice (File), then a pull down might appear like this:
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| File Edit Options Help ||____________________________________________________________________|
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| 1. Open
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| 2. Close
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| 3. DTX to H/O
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| 4. FAX to H/O
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An action bar can use from 2 to at most 4 lines across the top of the panel.
Each line can contain at most 6 action bar choices, thus totaling 18 choices within one process.
Each action bar choice has an associated pull down.
Each pull down can support at most 9 choices.
Thus 18 x 9 = 162 choices can be controlled from one action bar.
When a process is used as a normal menu, no extra details are required.
However, when a process is used as an "action bar", additional details about the layout and options in the action bar and its associated pull downs must be specified in a table called the "Action Bar Control Table".