# Programming keyboard menu

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-keyboard-menu/219700>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-keyboard-menu/219700 "2007-03-19T16:07:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jayme65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b2d939/32.png) [@Jayme65](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jayme65)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/programming-keyboard-menu/219700/1 "2007-03-19T16:07:15Z")

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Hi,  
Is there any good tutorial/guidelines to create games menu driven by keyboard only?

The kind of menu one can see in every games:

- you browse the item with your arrow keys
- by doing so, the element get highligthed (a different graphic)
- if you press a button (i.e the spacebar) the element get selected (another different graphic)
- very important: when you call the menu again, your last selected options are memorized…so each element is set to the proper state (selected or not actually)

So that would need:

1. a “map” with all your elements
2. a procedure to hilight the current element
3. saving settings and being able to recall them…and put each button in the correct state (even after a restart)

Thanks very much for any kind help

PS: I would even be able to pay for any good script;-)