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Date: 05-11-93 (10:33) Number: 63038 of 63372 (Refer# 62889)
To: SCOTT YAGODA
From: DAVID TERRY
Subj: brdm.mnu
Read: NO Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Conf: BETA (6) Read Type: MAIL FROM YOU (R/O) (+) HAS REPLIES
-> is it possible in the new menu setup to set a mnu to a user level as in the
-> old code you could have brdm and brdm25? If so please tell me how?
-> Well, you can't have a BRDM25.MNU if that's what you are asking. What you
-> *CAN* do is have security specific display files.
You can ALSO create a BRDM25 file and inside of it put the following line:
$C:\PCB\GEN\BRDM25.MNU
So... while PCBoard doesn't look for a BRDM25.MNU file, it DOES look for a
BRDM25 file and you can then force PCBoard to load an MNU file (of any name you
choose - I only picked BRDM25.MNU because that is what you picked).
The same thing would work for language-specific files or even RIPscrip specific
files. Here are two more examples:
Inside of the file BRDMR, which is for RIPscrip, place:
$C:\PCB\GEN\BRDMR.MNU
Inside of the file BRDM.FRE, which is a French version of BRDM, place:
$C:\PCB\GEN\BRDMFRE.MNU
Again, the actual names of the MNU files are not important. What IS important
is the name of the display file, which works the same as it always has, and the
contents of the display file which, new for v15.0, lets you put a dollar sign
followed by a valid filename to run a MNU file.
(this is also possible in PCBTEXT prompts, a $FILESPEC will load an MNU file)
So, yes, you CAN create menus that are specific to users having certain levels,
or for users that use specific languages, or even for those using RIPscrip.
And, of course, MNU files themselves allow you to set "display files" within
them so you could actually just create a single common menu for all types and
let PCBoard figure out which 'display file' should be shown. And this is a
round-about right back to what Scott said to you in the first place.
The one caution I would mention is this: PCBoard is going to try to display
your BRDM file, this is going to launch your BRDM25.MNU file, which is then
going to display ANOTHER file. My suggestion would be to ensure that you don't
go recursive ... ensure that the last display file shown does not launch yet
another MNU file. Make sense?
The flexibility of v15.0 is enough to boggle the minds of many a sysop. <grin>