Welcome to PcMenu Version 3.0 Alot of the changes to this version have culminated from those people who responded to my initial release of PcMenu To those people, Many thanks ! ( And now for your reward ) Changes/Additions in this version include ( 3.0.x where 'x' is Beta Version ) o An initialisation file ( called PCMU$INI.DAT ) as an alternative to using valuable DOS environment space. See the example file included with this release, it should be self explanitory ! o Periodic update of the information Box. Whenever a change is made to the file PCMU$HDR.DAT, PcMenu will detect the change ( by use of the DOS file time stamp ), reload and display the contents of the file. So that even if PcMenu is running passively, the Information Box will be updated immediately, it will also re-display the screen if the screen is blanked. o Dos Environment expansion now works correctly for Menu Titles ! o Alt-F10 "Exit to DOS" key sequence has been added. Allowing for immediate exit to DOS regardless of what menu is displayed ! o Alpha Keying has been added ! o The Novell's " !logout " command now works ! o Fixed display location problems. Menu shadow's no longer wrap around as they incorectly did previously. o Menu Wrap Around has been removed in this Version as it truly was unrealistic ! o Type ahead buffers are no longer flushed ! --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.1 o Copyright Notice repaired. o Changes made to the error reporting code. --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.2 o PcMenu now cleans up the batch files it creates. ---------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.3 o PcMenu NOW cleans up the batch files it creates. The previous mod ( 3.02 ) only did half the job ! *** Users of DOS 3.20 may see surperflous batchfile code as they ESCape from PcMenu, later DOS versions appear to behave as intended. --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.4 o Fixed a bug Date and Time display. o Fixed External file Sub Menu Bug. Sub menus from external files did not load correctly under certain circumstances. --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.5 o Fixed External file Sub Menu Bug. Sub menus from external files did not load correctly under certain circumstances. Fixed routines, for loading from LOG files, fix in v3.04 neglected this. --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.6 o Fixed '!Logout' command. ! directive is now only interpreted as such, if it is the first non-space character on the line, allowing '!'characters to be used for arguments to other applications without terminating unexpectantly o Fixed buffer overuns, that sometimes occured when the last line in menu scripts are not terminated with a RETURN character. --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.7 o The broken sub menu feature in v3.06 from alternate files repaired ! --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.8 o The screen saver now displays a simple message across the bottom of the screen. This is to differentiate between a computer that has been switched off and one running this screen saver ! o It was felt that when Information Box colours were changed, that the help bar colours clashed ! The option has now been added to the PCMU$INI.DAT file so that when global colours are set for the Information Box they also apply to the help bar as well. o Added clipping to the PCMU$HDR file. The file can only contain 14 lines of information ( excluding global colour info if present ). o Added option 'saver_messages'. When set to 'no' ALL screnn messages will not be displayed. Screen remains blank at all times. --------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Version 3.0.9 A few more fixes with this version o Fixed a few memory *leaks* ! o Fixed Screen Saver Delays. Soon as the message leaves the window the next message now starts to appear. o Fixed various other *Bugs* roaming in the system - Option titles and Menu titles > 78 characters no longer cause menus to wrap around screen incorectly. Instead, options or Titles to long are clipped. o Information Box - now expands DOS Environment Vars correctly, It no longer strips '\' from paths o Added new option. * Option Hiding * works similar to Alternate sub-Menus. Directly after the option name a filename can be specified, seperated by a comma. If the file exists the option will be displayed otherwise it is hidden. The idea here is, put the name of the package or software that you want to run with this option, or any flag filename you wish.