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- { Note: if you have a Menu Wizard DEMO version you may not have all of the
- below features available. To find out if you have the DEMO vers-
- chose ABOUT (Menu Wizard) from the menu bar after starting. )
-
- Menu Wizard is a program designed to allow a user to design a customized
- set of menus for their personal computer system.
-
- >>----------------------<<
- >> MENU WIZARD FEATURES <<
- >>----------------------<<
-
- Often used programs can be organized into Sub Menus and each
- individual program can be started with the press of a single
- key or the press of a Mouse button once Menu Wizard is set up
- for your system.
-
- Each program on your system can have it's own individual password
- or you can password protect whole Sub Menus of programs.
- ( Hide those Adult-Rated games from your kids)
-
- You can prevent the exit to DOS or the usage of DOS oriented features
- by activating a manager password known only to one or a handful of
- people. A handful of often used DOS features are available from
- an easily activated pulldown Menu which is visible at all times on the
- Menu Wizard screen.
-
- A choice of several attractive screen Blankers are built into
- Menu Wizard to protect your screen from Video Burn In when you are
- away from your desk.
-
- ( MENU WIZARD IS NOT A MULTI-TASKING SYSTEM AND MAKES NO PRETENSES.)
- ( THE SCREEN BLANKERS ARE NOT ACTIVATED WHEN YOU ARE IN A PROGRAM )
- ( ACTIVATED BY MENU WIZARD. THEY ARE REACTIVATED WHEN UPON RET- )
- ( URNING TO MENU WIZARD. )
-
- The ''Desk top'' (a common term for a menu programs main screen) is
- not as flexible as some menu programs but is completely customizable
- for color and title.
-
- It suffers from no compatibility problems with even very large DOS
- packages that I have tried running under it.
-
- It is designed to be simple and effective to use and to take as little
- memory as possible from the programs it may be asked to execute.
-
- ( The resident kernel MWIZ.COM takes approximately 2.5k bytes of Ram
- which is not a very big chunk. Particularly with DOS 5.0 and DOS
- and most device drivers loaded high.)
-
- ******************************************************************************
- > MENU WIZARD
- > SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS <
- > ------------------- <
- > <
- > Operating System : MS or PC-DOS 3.0 or higher <
- > CPU : Will run on 8088 but 12 mHz 80286 or higher <
- > is recommended. <
- > Video : 256K EGA or better required <
- > RAM : Has not been tested on any system under 640k <
- > but should run on 512k machine fine. A 256k <
- > machine might run it but it's Iffy. <
- ******************************************************************************
-
- (I know there a lot of good Menu programs out there I think mine is as
- good or better then most of them. )
-
- It suffers from no compatibility problems with even very large DOS
- packages that I have tried running under it.
-
- It is designed to be simple and effective to use and to take as little
- memory as possible from the programs it may be asked to execute.
-
- ( The resident kernel >MWIZ.COM< takes approximately 2.5k bytes of Ram
- which is not a very big chunk. Particularly with DOS 5.0 and DOS and most
- device drivers loaded high.)
-
- (Test Bed Programs include Word Perfect 5.1, WolfenStein 3-D,HARPOON
- and others any of which require a great deal of user RAM all Three of
- the above programs ran perfectly under Menu Wizard. So did X-WING fighter
- and it wants over 600k conventional memory free to even run.)
-
- NOTE: One disadvantage which may or may not matter is that text based
- Pop-Ups (i.e. TSR's) will not pop-up in graphics mode. You may still
- have them loaded but you need to invoke a DOS Shell or other Text
- based environment to Pop them up.
-
- NOTE: Screen Blanker TSR'S Should not be used with Menu Wizard, it has it's
- own built in screen blankers. If you wish to try one, the results
- may be unpredictable. Menu Wizard has not been tested with any
- but it's own built in screen blankers. A graphics based screen
- blanker might work but I wouldn't try it. Menu Wizard has a choice of
- several built in screen blankers and some of them offer
- additional configuration options.
-
- *****************************************************************************
-
- The Menu Screens.
- -----------------
-
- These are the user configured menus for the system.
-
- Each Menu Consists of 20 small Buttons 2 Large Buttons
- and a PullDown Menu.
-
- Each small button will have a Title next to it (Or ITEM INACTIVE)
- Depending on what color this title is it either indicates a program
- or a Sub Menu.
-
- (Default Colors are White for a program, Red for a Sub Menu
- these colors are user configurable.)
-
-
- To [ PRESS ] a small button on the Menu Screen you either
- click it with the left Mouse button or press the key that is ind-
- icated on the button.
-
- >>PRESSING<< a button will either
-
- >1. Activate the program<
-
- >2. Switch to the Sub Menu<
- Each Sub Menu is a complete Menu Screen in it's own right
- and may have a completely different sets of programs or
- some of the same programs as the previous menu.
-
- The two large buttons are the EXIT and HELP buttons. If In a Sub-Menu
- the EXIT button has the word BACK on it and takes you Back to the
- menu above it (it's "Parent".) If you are on Main Menu which is always
- the highest level. Then Menu Wizard gives you a chance to abort
- before exiting the program. To press the EXIT button click on it with
- the Mouse or press the ESC key.
-
- The HELP button will display a help screen with detailed information on
- most Menu Wizard features. To press the HELP button click it with the
- Mouse or press Control/H.
-
-
-
- >>BUILDING YOUR MENUS<<
- -----------------------
-
- You chose the *New Item* option from the MENU title on the pull-
- down menu.
-
- You will see a Dialog box for Menu items that requests the
- following information.
-
- Field #1 - Title -> This can be any thing at all. For
- instance if you have a Word processing
- package you could enter "Word Processor"
- "Words", "My Writing Tools" etc.
- You can also spruce it up with astericks
- and the like. This will be the Title
- beside the Item's Button when you are done.
-
-
- Field #2 - Run Directory -> This information is not mandatory but it
- can serve two important purposes.
- If you wish, this directory can be made
- current before the program runs.
- If your program is not in the DOS path
- the information furnished here is used
- to search for the program in addition to
- the DOS Path variable. This can be
- used to execute programs that are not on
- the Dos Path without changing Directorys.
-
- If your program is in the DOS path and
- it is something such as an Editor or other
- software package which generates a lot of
- files you may wish to switch to a special
- directory before running it to store it's
- files. This use does not require that the
- program be in the Run Directory.
-
-
- Field #3 - Program File Name --> This is the FileName your program is
- stored under. This can be a .COM,.EXE
- or .BAT file. If the extension is not
- supplied Menu Wizard searches for
- the file extensions in the above listed
- order. If an explicit extension is
- given the program will be executed
- slightly faster, (particularly .BAT's
- because they are the last searched for)
- because the search will be shorter.
- The DOS Path is searched first followed
- by the Directory path given in RUN Dir-
- ectory if the program is not found in
- the DOS Path.
-
-
- Field #4 - Pause on Return --> Certain programs will display informa-
- tion on the screen and then terminate.
- You may not want Menu Wizard to auto-
- matically come back and obliterate this
- screen information. Putting a Y in
- this field will cause a prompt to
- appear on the bottom line preserving
- what ever else is on screen until you
- press a key indicating you are done with
- it.
-
- Field #5 - Enable Password --> If you put a Y in this field the menu
- Item will be password protected.
- The user will be prompted for a password
- before Menu Wizard allows the Item to
- Execute.
-
- Field #6 - Ask for options --> If you want the user to be ably to
- enter command line options for a program
- put a Y in this Field.
-
- Field #7 - PassWord --> You enter in this field the password
- that will be used if password is enabled
- the password is encrypted by a fairly
- sophisticated algorithm before being
- saved in the MWIZ.MIF file.
-
-
- Field #8 - Change Dir to Run -> Put a Y in this field if you want Menu
- Wizard to change to the path in the
- Run Directory Field prior to the program
- executing.
-
- Field #9 - Permanent Command -> Type in any DOS command line options
- Line Options that you want routed to the program eah
- time it executes. (Optional)
- This can be used in conjunction with
- Ask for Options. If a string is entered
- in the Permanent Options Field it will
- be added in front of user entered option.
-
- Field #10 - Prompt for Command -> This is the prompt that will be presented
- Line Options to the user if the ask for options
- field is marked with a Y.
- For example for a text editor you might
- put the message * ENTER FILE NAME *
- in this field.
-
- The Sub Menu Dialog Box is a greatly abbreviated form of the above
- dialog box. Having only the Title, Enable PassWord , and PassWord Fields.
- It is filled out in much the same way.
-
-
- > * PASSWORD PROTECTION * <
- -------------------
-
- In Addition to individual Menu items having a Password protection
- option their is also a >>MANAGER PASSWORD<< that can be enabled from
- the Main Config Dialog Box.
-
- When the Manager PassWord is enabled the following functions are
- password protected by the Manager PassWord.
-
- 1. All DOS Menu functions.
-
- 2. File Manager
-
- 3. Exiting the program , you can deny access to the DOS command
- line by having Menu Wizard up and running.
-
-
- > * FILES USED BY MENU WIZARD * <
- -------------------------
-
-
- MENU WIZARD USES SOME FILES WHICH MUST BE KEPT IN THE SAME DIRECTORY
- WITH MWIZ.COM.
-
-
- MWIZ.EXE - Most of the Menu Wizard program.
-
-
- > MWIZ.MIF ( Menu Information File) <
- --------------------------------
-
- MWIZ.MIF is automatically created by MWIZ when starting
- if it does not all ready exist. It contains all Menu information
- for Menu Wizard (Program & Color Information)
-
-
-
-
-
- ******************************************************************************
-
- > CONFIG.SYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT COMMANDS FOR MENU WIZARD <
- ----------------------------------------------------
-
- > CONFIG.SYS <
- ----------
-
- FILES = 10 ( Minimum )
- STACKS = 9,256 ( On 8088 and 80286 machines this is necessary but
- have had no trouble on 386 and higher processors
- with out this command. 8088's and 80286's crash
- consistently with out this command when running
- Menu Wizard. {For those of you who are programmers
- I believe this is due to the amount of processing
- that is done in the 5 Interrupt service routines
- that are a part of Menu Wizard} )
-
- DEVICE = C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS (Format and copy disk options will
- disrupt screen output with out this
- device driver installed.)
-
- DEVICE = C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.SYS (optional but this or
- mouse.com in AUTOEXEC.BAT is
- necessary if you want to use a mouse.)
-
- > AUTOEXEC.BAT <
- ------------
-
- C:\DOS\PRINT /D:PRN (Optional but installs the DOS print
- spooler for use with the print menu)
-
- C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM (optional and not necessary if MOUSE.SYS
- is loaded in CONFIG.SYS.
- This or MOUSE.SYS is required to use a
- mouse with MENU WIZARD.)
-
-
- ******************************************************************************
-
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- ║ Any Problems with Menu Wizard should be addressed to the programmer. ║
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- ║ A Written reply is guaranteed to all Menu Wizard registered users. ║
- ║ If you are not registered see the file ORDER.FRM that ║
- ║ come with Menu Wizard. ║
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