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- *intro 1
-
- BatMenu V1.00
-
- Copyright (C) 1989 by Simple Solutions, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved
-
- BatMenu is a menu generation program for DOS batch files.
-
- As you'll soon see, BatMenu allows you the flexibility to generate
- attractive, scrollable menus for your batch files.
-
- Please refer to the documentation file for full details on
- program operation. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
-
- Tech support is cheerfully offered to registered users.
- Shareware at a price you can afford!
-
- CIS 76440,76
- GEnie M.GEISINGER
-
- Press RETURN to continue...
-
- *intro 2
-
- I'd like to take just a couple of minutes to demonstrate
- some of the things that you can do with BatMenu.
-
- What's going on here is really quite simple for you to do with BatMenu.
- When you're ready, load this batch file into your favorite text editor
- and take a look at it. You'll see that each of the command lines for
- BatMenu contain several parameters which are fully covered in the
- documentation file.
-
- What you won't see is all this text. That's because BatMenu provides
- a simple method of creating numerous different menus (or as you see
- here, windows) from a single file. The file is named BATMEN.TXT
- and may be placed just about anywhere you like.
-
- Press RETURN to continue...
- *intro 3
-
- Well, you say, where's the menus!
- Coming right up!
-
- Actually, what you've been reading
- are BatMenu menus. Try the Up/Dwn
- arrow keys and you'll see what I
- mean.
-
- But you want to see menus, right?
-
- OK, but indulge me one more time.
-
- Press ESC for scrolling text...
- *intro 4
-
- A word on scrollable text and windows
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-
- I just wanted to take a moment to illustrate
- that you can scroll through text in a window.
-
- If you lay on the Up or Dwn arrow key for a
- moment you'll see that there is more here
- than meets the eye, in this window at least.
-
- You see, scrollable menus are very
- similar to scrollable windows. To have a
- scrollable window, you just use BatMenu as
- you would with a menu, except you display
- text in the window.
-
- I wonder... Not a bad way to provide help
- screens or allow someone to read text in a
- batch file. I've seen a lot o people go to
- great lengths to emulate paging through
- text in a batch file with pause commands in
- in all the right places. I think that
- BatMenu does that and more in a much more
- easy to use fashion.
-
- Now for those menus I've been promising.
-
- Just press RETURN...
-
- *menu1
- Choice 1 -- Well, here's your first menu.
- Choice 2 -- You'll notice that only the
- Choice 3 -- first 8 characters are
- Choice 4 -- highlighted. You can use the
- Choice 5 -- [-l n] parameter to limit the
- Choice 6 -- number of highlighted chars
- Choice 7 -- to 'n'. This allows you the
- Choice 8 -- remaining menu space for
- Choice 9 -- explanatory text.
- *menu2
- Choice 1 -- Of course you don't have to
- Choice 2 -- get fancy if you don't want
- Choice 3 -- to. A simple menu follows.
- Choice 4 -- Did I mention that you can
- Choice 5 -- have up to nine choices in a
- Choice 6 -- menu? You can have fewer, of
- Choice 7 -- course.
- *menu3
- Choice 1
- Choice 2
- Choice 3
- Choice 4
- Choice 5
- Choice 6
- Choice 7
- Choice 8
- Choice 9
- *menu4
-
- Have you noticed that when you exit a menu that the underlaying screen
- is still intact? Nice, right? Of course you can choose to clear the
- screen either before or after executing BatMenu. The easiest method is
- with DOS's 'cls' in your batch file, but BatMenu will also do this for
- you with the [-c] switch, and this may be quicker.
- More? Press Return...
-
- Want to quit? Highlight this line with the arrow keys and press Return.
- *menu5
-
- I hope you find BatMenu useful.
-
- I believe that you will find it quite flexible and easy to use.
-
- Take a few minutes to read the documentation file. All the details you
- need to use BatMenu are there. The format of the BATMEN.TXT file is very
- simple, just the text you want in your menu and a keyword to mark each
- menu or screen. Also, please pay particular attention to the command
- line switches for BatMenu. They're the key to its flexibility.
-
- BatMenu V1.00
-
- Copyright (C) 1989 by Simple Solutions, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved
-
- Simple Solutions, Inc.
- P.O. Box 640189
- Kenner, LA 70064
- (504) 464-5748
-