Consumer apparatus provided with a programming system by means of a form-filling type display

A consumer apparatus comprising:

• physical actuation means for selecting a top specifying mode and an executing mode;
• visual display means for, in said top specifying mode, displaying a first static array of a plurality of proposal fields, each of said proposal fields being arranged in a respective unique fixed position on said visual display means, and each of said proposal fields being associated to a respective unique list of formatted proposals each fittable within the proposal field of its associated list, but of which proposals, only a single proposal is activated and displayed in the associated proposal field, while all other proposals of the list in question are hidden, each of said proposal fields remaining displayed in said respective unique fixed position;
• cursoring means for reversibly cursoring along said proposal fields, and through selecting, reversibly activating one single displayed proposal field while keeping all other displayed proposal fields deactivated;
• cycling means for, exclusively, with respect to an actually activated proposal field, reversibly cycling through said unique list of formatted proposals associated with said actually activated proposal field, and reversibly activating a selectable single one of said formatted proposals for display in that proposal field, while maintaining display positions and contents of all other proposal fields as chosen most recently in the past unchanged;
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• fixating means for, at a transition from said top specifying mode to said executing mode, fixating all actually displayed proposals for execution according to all proposals being actually displayed in all of said displayed proposal fields.