Design SHELL allows up to 30 menus or applications on eachpage. You are allowed to have Sub Menus and Applicationsmixed on any page. Menus can be four levels deep. With this configuration, you can have up to 810,000 titles. Sub Menus are titled as "Menu" and Applications are titledas "File". If a title is password protected, a red bar will appearbelow the Hotkey prompt. NOTE ! All references to "Click" means to click your left mouse button on the option. Adding a Sub Menu or Application. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Click on the EDIT Icon. Click on Add a new title. At the data entry screen: Title: Enter a title for this menu or application. ~~~~~~ HotKey: This hotkey can be used to access this menu ~~~~~~~ or application using the keyboard. Press PgDn to list active Hotkeys. Drive: Enter the Drive letter. Press PgDn to list ~~~~~~ all drives in a pick list menu. Directory: Enter the Directory that this application is ~~~~~~~~~~ located in. Press PgDn to list all Directories in a pick list menu. Command: Enter any DOS or Batch file command or the ~~~~~~~~ filename that executes the application. Press PgDn to list files. You may enter any number of commands you like as long as you separate each command with a carat character (^). Each command will be executed separately. Press PgDn to list all files in a pick list menu. Always include the file extensions (.COM, .EXE,.BAT) when entering filenames. You may also include a plus character (+) immediately following any command. Including a plus character will instruct Design SHELL to ask the user for a command line switch or parameter at run time. Any number of commands may include a plus character. You may also include the word "DROP" as a command on this line. This DROP command will instruct Design SHELL to drop to DOS. Prompt: Any text entered here will be displayed to ~~~~~~~ the user at runtime. Pause: If you want Design SHELL to pause and wait ~~~~~~ for a keypress after displaying the above prompt, answer this with a "Y". NOTE ! Read the Extended Pause information at the end if this help screen for more information on the use of this command with sub menu selections. Password: Enter a password here, only if you want this ~~~~~~~~~ menu or application password protected. CAUTION ! Even blank characters can be used as password characters so if you do not want password protection, make sure no characters or blank spaces are present here. SHELL: Answering this with a "N" will instruct ~~~~~~ Design SHELL to totally drop out of system memory during executing an application (the preferred method). Answering with a "Y" will instruct Design SHELL to execute this application through a shell to DOS. With this method, Design SHELL will use about 40kb of system memory during execution of an application. NOTE ! The SHELL method is slightly faster. Also if you are running Design SHELL through another GUI or menu you may need to use this SHELL method to make sure Design SHELL returns after executing a command. MENU: Answering this option with a "Y" will cause ~~~~~ this title to become a sub menu title. You are allowed to have sub menus three levels deep. If you use this title as a sub menu, you need not enter any text or information at the Drive, Directory, Command, or Prompt fields. The HotKey will be the only active field. Answering with a "N" will instruct Design SHELL to treat this title as an application entry. ICON: Enter the complete DOS Path and filename of the Icon you want displayed with this title. Press PgDn to list all Icons to a pick list screen. Icon files may be located on any drive or directory on your system. Copy and Paste: At the upper left hand corner of this data entry screen you will see two icons representing Copy and Paste. If you select the Copy icon, all of the information from this entry will be copied to a paste buffer in memory. You may then Paste this information to a new or existing entry, by selecting the Paste icon while at the new data entry screen. After completing all fields, click on the "TAB" icon to save the field information. After saving this title, Design SHELL will place your newentry on the display screen, normally at the lower righthand corner. You may then move or relocate this new entryby clicking on the Move Icon, then click on the new Icon,move it around the screen to the location you like, andthen click your mouse to paste it down. Editing or changeing a Sub Menu or Application. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Click on the Edit Icon. Click on the Edit a title. Click on the Menu or Application title you want to edit. Make all the changes you like. Click on the TAB Icon to save your changes. Deleting a Sub Menu or Application. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Click on the Edit Icon. Click on Delete a title. Click on the Menu or Application you want deleted. The "Setup" Icon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Setup Icon will take you to a sub menu that allowssetting up password protection for the entire system and alloptions, turning the screen blanking option on or off andsetting the time delay before going into screen blanking,allows editing the screen blanking logo, provides optionsfor setting mouse rate, keyboard rate, and delay, an optionfor turning a screen grid on or off, selecting a defaultdirectory for the text editor, and also provides an optionfor selecting screen wallpaper images. NOTE ! wallpaper screen image files are identical to icon files. Icons may be used as wallpaper files simply by including a underscore character (_) in the filenames. The "NEW" Icon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This option allows changing a picture icon that hascurrently been assigned to a menu or application title. Tochange a picture simply click on the change icon, click onthe menu or application title you want to change, at thistime you will be presented with a list of all icons click onthe new icon you want to be displayed. Design SHELL willthen change the picture icon for you. The "MOVE" Icon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This option allows moving a current title to a new locationon your screen. To move a title, click on the move icon,click on the title you want to move, move the title to thenew location, click your mouse to paste it down. The "ICON" Icon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This option takes you to the Icon editor. In this moduleyou may also select font types, font colors, and screenbackground colors For more help on the Icon editor, you may access a helpscreen from within the Icon editor. The "UTIL" Icon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This option takes you to the Disk utility module. In thismodule you may perform various Directory and Filemaintenance chores. This module also provides you with acomplete front end menu system for the very popular PKZIParchiving utility application and the McAfee virus scanutility. For more help on the Disk Utility module, you may access ahelp screen from with in the Disk Utility module. Extended Pause. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This pause statement works slightly different when setting up a selection as a sub menu (Menu (Y/N) = Y). When a selection is setup as a sub menu, and the Pause is set to Yes (Pause (Y/N) = Y), all or any text that has been entered at the Command and Prompt fields will be displayed to the user at run time. end.
