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In game, the menu button (F1 / Esc / the controller's menu shortcut) now drops a bar down from the top instead of opening the Settings window straight away.

The bar

• Entries: Settings, Warp, Save Editor, Reset, Quit, and a close X at the right end. They look like Settings' tabs, and the entry the cursor is on is lit.
• Left / right (or L / R, Q / E) move along it, A / Enter opens an entry, and B / Esc closes the menu. The mouse works too: hovering moves the cursor, and a click opens the entry.
• It uses the game's inventory sounds (menu_sfx).

Pages

• Settings, Warp and Save Editor open full screen, and the bar goes up while one is open. B / Esc or the page's X brings the bar back.
• Warp and Save Editor are no longer Settings tabs, since they only work in a save. Settings keeps Controls, Video, Audio, Gameplay, Cosmetics, Randomizer and Cheats.
• The start screen's Settings is unchanged apart from losing those tabs.

Reset and Quit

• Each asks in a small popup over the bar, and the cursor starts on Cancel.
• Reset: Cancel / Reset. Reset boots the game again, starting at the intro movie.
• Quit: Cancel / Return to Launcher / Quit. Return to Launcher is the old "Quit to start screen".
• New strings: "Return to Launcher" and "Reset Game", translated in all 11 tables.

Merged with beta_6

• The live preview (Settings: live preview for video settings #570) opens over the game with the bar hidden, and B goes back to the Settings page.
• The menu's release-all-on-open from Menus: no stuck controller input, no wrapping round #606 is kept.

Test hooks

• LARECOMP_MENU_BAR=<entry>: the bar alone, with the cursor on that entry.
• LARECOMP_MENU_TAB: 4 opens Warp, 2 Save Editor, 9 Quit's popup, 10 Reset's popup, and any other number a Settings tab.
• LARECOMP_MENU_ASK=cancel|launcher|reset: presses that popup button.
• LARECOMP_HOST_INPUT mouse:@x/y: moves the mouse to a window point.

Tested

• In-game screenshots with keyboard, controller and mouse.
• Reset reboots into the intro movie.
• After the merge: the bar with Quit's popup, the Video page, and the Internal resolution live preview.
• Play-tested by the user.
• Not tested: Return to Launcher and Quit to desktop, which use the same calls the old Quit page did. Menu sounds, since test runs are silent.

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