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- SHORT: Silicon Graphics-like pop-up menus.
-
- Silicon Menus V1.0 (30-Aug-92) by Greg Cunningham
-
-
- (Remember: CTRL-ALT-S)
-
- Silicon menus is another "pop up" or "tear off" type menu system for all
- programs which use standard system menus.
-
- This program was designed to enhance the looks of AmigaOS 2.0 in an area which
- CBM seemed to blow off. There were no changes since 1.0!
-
- The menus will hopefully look good with any 2.0 aware program, but will
- probably look reversed with any of the older software. It somehow makes
- Imagine more readable, in my opinion. :-/ (No, I used LightWave for SM)
-
- The features are about the same as all of the other PopMenu type programs:
-
- Standard pull-down menues will appear if the pointer is in the screen's
- menubar.
-
- You may select if the menus should pop-up when you are holding a qualifier
- key down. (SHIFT, ALT, CTRL, AMIGA)
-
- The "Iris menus" option is a stay-up-without-holding-the-menu-button like
- "Click menus" in the others, but more like the Silicon Graphics OS where it
- acts like you are holding it down. (Or like Windows, if you're more familiar
- with that)
-
- The subitem arrow option shows an arrow so you can see which menus have
- submenus.
-
- The center menus option centers menus vertically.
-
- Hot-key options window when CTRL-ALT-S is pressed.
-
-
- Running the program from the shell:
-
- > Run SiliconMenus [-option] [-option] ....
-
- Options:
- -H Help text
- -I Enable Iris (tm) Menus.
- -A Turn off sub-item arrows.
- -C Center item windows.
- -Q pop-up menus only with qualifier pressed.
- -W No initial window.
- -Kx Set hot-key [A-Z]. (default is 'S')
- -X Exit Silicon Menus.
- -D Turn off double border. Double: Like the borders around windows
-
- Running the program from the Workbench: (The best way)
-
- First set the ToolTpyes. These are your options.
-
- IRISMENUS=ON/OFF Enable/Disable Iris menus mode.
- SUBARROW=ON/OFF Enable/Disable display of subitem arrows.
- CENTER=ON/OFF Display menus vertically centered.
- QUAL=ON/OFF Standard menus if ALT, SHIFT, AMIGA, or CTRL are
- not pressed.
- WINDOW=ON/OFF Enable/Disable options window when first run.
- HOTKEY=A-Z Set the hot-key key. Only 'A' thru 'Z' permitted.
- DOUBLEBORDER=ON/OFF Enable/Disable doubled menu borders.
-
-
- Now just click on the icon. If the WINDOW option is set to ON, you will see
- a strange looking user interface flying towards you. (Sorry 68000 users,
- I know this looks really slow. It's nice on an 040) This is a rip-off of
- ButtonFly from the new Silicon Graphics OS upgrade. It looks alot better in
- 24 bit!
-
- If you don't understand what the icons mean, here's a little ASCII drawing...
-
- --------------------------------
- | ------------- ----------- |
- | |Iris menus | |Centered | |
- | ------------- ----------- |
- | |
- | ------------- ----------- |
- | |Sub Arrows | |Qualifier| |
- | ------------- ----------- |
- | |
- | ------------- ----------- |
- | | Kill pgm | |Use opts | |
- | ------------- ----------- |
- --------------------------------
-
- I'm sorry if this window does not follow the Commodore user interface style
- guide. If you don't like it don't use it!
-
- Enjoy,
- Greg Cunningham, author of BaudBandit (II) & Disk Master (II) from
- Porgressive Peripherals Inc.
-
- Internet: BaudMan@cup.portal.com
-
- Watch out for Jelloette coming RSN...
-
- Distribution
-
- This program is public domain. It may be freely distributed as long as
- no charge is made other than to cover time and copying costs. If you want
- to include the program as part of a commercial package then contact the
- author listed above. Fred Fish is specifically given permission to include
- the program in his fine disk collection.
-