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- MOUSEMENU USER'S MANUAL
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- (Version 2.9.3)
-
- by
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- David R. Webb
-
- October 24, 1992
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- Table of Contents
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- 1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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- 1.1 Shareware -- What is it, Anyway? . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- 1.2 Computer Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- 1.3 Running MouseMenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 2 Updating the Data File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 2.1 Creating Menu Headings and Batch Files . . . . . . . 6
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- 2.2 Inserting a New Heading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- 2.3 Deleting a Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- 2.4 Moving a Heading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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- 2.5 Creating a New Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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- 2.6 Passing Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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- 2.7 Changing Screen Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- 2.8 Titling a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- 2.9 Changing Screen Saver Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- 2.10 Invoking the "Moths" Screen Saver. . . . . . . . . . 9
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- 3 Advanced SETUP Information (DAT File Specifics) . . . . . 10
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- 4 Expanding MouseMenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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- 5 Known Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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- 6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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- INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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- ORDER FORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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- MouseMenu 2.9.3
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- 1 Introduction
-
- MouseMenu is a MicroSoft compatible mouse (as well as cursor-key)
- driven menu system for all IBM PC's and PC clone machines. It
- allows the user instant access to 128 user-defined batch files, if
- used in its purest form, and an unlimited number of batch files, if
- used on a directory-by-directory basis.
-
- MOUSEMENU IS SHAREWARE. While you can distribute Shareware to
- anyone, you can only use it free for 30 days. After that, if you
- want to keep on using it, you need to register the software. To do
- that, fill out the form at the end of this document and send it
- along with the registration fee to the address listed. The fee is
- only $5.00 (not much more than a good paperback book), so don't worry
- about that! MouseMenu can be freely distributed to ANYONE who wishes
- to use it. If the user has any problems or suggestions to make,
- he or she should be send them to the following address:
-
- David R. Webb
- P.O. Box 17
- Kaysville, Utah 84037-0017
-
- If a registered user makes any suggestions for improvement/bug-
- fixes that are used in future versions of MouseMenu, the user will
- receive that update FREE! So, please send a card or letter to the
- above address if you have ANY problems or suggestions concerning
- the program. (You may also contact the author on America Online
- using the screen name DaveRWebb, on Prodigy using the ID
- KNGP41A, or on INTERNET using address "DaveRWebb@aol.com".)
-
- Upon distribution, this software was virus-free and will hopefully
- remain so, but that cannot be guaranteed. The programmer is
- therefore not responsible for any hardware or software damages to
- a user's system as a result of using MOUSEMENU. To keep the
- program as pure as possible, please do not alter the original code
- in any way.
-
- The user should receive the following files with the MouseMenu
- package:
-
- 1) MOUSEMEN.BAT--The batch file that starts everything.If you did
- not receive this file, create the following file (named
- "MouseMen.Bat"):
-
- echo off
- cls
- MouseRun
- MouseTmp
-
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-
-
- (If you have DOS 3.30 or later, then enter:
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- @echo off
- MouseRun
- MouseTmp
-
- Or copy Mouse3_3.Bat to MouseMen.Bat if you received these
- files in your package.)
-
- 2) MOUSEMEN.DAT--The data file which MouseMenu uses. If you did
- not receive this file, don't worry--it will be created for
- you. See the upcoming section titled "Updating the Data
- File."
-
- 3) MOUSERUN.EXE--The program which does it all. THIS FILE MUST
- BE INCLUDED IN THE MOUSEMENU PACKAGE. IF IT IS NOT PRESENT,
- MOUSEMENU WILL NOT RUN!
-
- 4) HOME.BAT--A very helpful batch file. If you place all of your
- MouseMenu files in a subdirectory called MOUSEMEN, then place
- MOUSEMEN in your directory PATH, typing "Home" from anywhere
- will instantly take you back to your menu!
-
- 5) READ_ME.1ST--A simple explanation of how to start MouseMenu,
- since MouseMenu is very easy to run.
-
- 6) MOUSEMEN.DOC--A text-only version of this document.
-
-
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- 1.1 Shareware -- What is it, Anyway?
-
- Shareware programs are circulated by various means, bulletin boards
- and shareware distributors being the most common. They are low-
- cost, reliable pieces of software that you may run on your computer
- before you buy them, to see if they meet your needs. This is much
- more preferable to buying the software from a vendor only to find
- out that it doesn't do what you wanted it to. Most software
- vendors will not allow the return of software, unless your disks
- are damaged, and then they'll only replace the disks. No refunds.
-
- With a piece of Shareware (like MouseMenu 2.9.3), you're allowed to
- actually use the fully-functioning program itself for 30 days
- without a charge! The version of MouseMenu you're looking at now
- is the actual software - not a demo. If a Shareware program does
- not meet your needs, you're free to get rid of it -- preferably by
- giving it to someone else to look at. There is no charge if you
- don't like the product. However, if you do like a Shareware
- product (and you will), then the author asks for you to register it
- with him or her. Shareware registration can cost anywhere from
- $5.00 up to $100.00, depending on what the author thinks the
- program is worth. (MouseMenu is on the low end of the scale -- it
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- only costs $5.00 for a single-user license.) In almost all cases,
- the registration fee is much, much cheaper than buying a commercial
- program of the same quality. (After a little research, you can
- find several menu programs of equal quality at your local software
- store -- for FOUR TIMES the cost of MouseMenu.)
-
- SHAREWARE IS NOT FREE! Although previous versions of MouseMenu
- were what is called FREEWARE, as of version 2.9.3 it has become
- Shareware. Why? Because I simply can't put all the work, time,
- and money into developing a better product without some monetary
- support. If the users of MouseMenu do not register, then I will
- probably not be able to release future versions of the product.
- (As an aside: I'm already Alpha-Testing MouseMenu 3.0 and it's
- going to be awesome -- the best gets better!) I encourage you to
- support shareware, not only MouseMenu, but other products as well;
- the authors provide good, quality products for very reasonable
- prices. (If you don't believe me, go down to your local software
- store and price software!)
-
- To register MouseMenu, just fill out the form on the last page of
- this manual, or print out the form that comes with the MouseMenu
- package. Send your check or money order, along with the form, to
- the address given. When you register, you'll automatically receive
- the following:
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- 1) A free newsletter announcing new MouseMenu updates.
-
- 2) A 50% discount on MouseMenu Upgrades!
-
- 3) A disk with the most recent version of MouseMenu if you
- register with an older version.
-
- As you can see, it's well worth the money. But, because it's
- Shareware, you can decide that for yourself. If you find that
- you're using MouseMenu consistently after the first 30 day trial
- period, I encourage you to register with me to get the full
- benefits from the software.
-
-
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- 1.2 Computer Requirements
-
- You can run MouseMenu on any PC, XT, or AT-type machine. The only
- requirements are 256K of memory and DOS 2.X or higher. (Please,
- try MouseMenu thoroughly on your particular system before you
- decide to register it!)
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- 1.3 Running MouseMenu
-
- You must run MouseMenu from its batch file MOUSEMEN.BAT.
-
- (NOTE: You may rename MOUSEMEN.BAT to any file name you wish
- with a ".BAT" extension. Many people prefer MM.BAT,
- since MM is quicker and easier to type than MOUSEMEN.
- You may also use the provided HOME.BAT file which will be
- discussed later.)
-
- MOUSEMEN.BAT does the following:
-
- 1) Run the MOUSERUN program, which puts the menu on the screen,
- awaits the user's selection, and generates the appropriate
- batch file to execute that selection. It then saves this
- temporary batch file to disk as "MouseTmp.Bat."
-
- 2) Starts the MOUSETMP batch file which executes the user's menu
- selection.
-
- Once you have run the MOUSEMEN batch file (either from the keyboard
- or from AUTOEXEC.BAT) you should get a screen that looks a little
- like the following:
-
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ F1-HELP F2 - INFO F3 -SETUP F4-DOS SHELL Esc-Exit to DOS │
- │ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ │
- │ ║ MouseMenu 2.9.3 Demo Menu ║ │
- │ ╟─────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────╢ │
- │ ║█A - Read Me First███████████│ B - Look At MOUSEMEN.BAT ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ C - Look at MOUSEMEN.DAT │ D - Look At Documentation ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ E - Run A DOS Command │ ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ║ │ ║ │
- │ ╚═════════════════════════════╧════════════════════════════╝ │
- │ ████████████████████████ PAGE 1 OF 1 ███████████████████████ │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- (NOTE: If your screen has none of these headings, skip this
- section and go to the section titled Updating the Data
- File.)
-
- Use the cursor arrow keys to move the selection bar around. If you
- have a MicroSoft compatible mouse installed, a mouse cursor should
- appear as you move the mouse about. Click once on any heading to
- move the selection bar to that position. You may also move the bar
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- vertically downward by pressing the space bar.
-
- Execute an option by moving the selection bar to the desired
- position and pressing ENTER, or by moving the mouse cursor to the
- desired heading and clicking twice with the LEFT mouse button (once
- to move the selection bar and once more to execute the selected
- menu item), or by pressing the letter next to the desired
- selection.
-
- If you have more than one page in your menu (you may have up to 8
- pages), use the PgUp and PgDn keys or the RIGHT button on the mouse
- to change the page number.
-
- Press the F1 button from anywhere within MouseMenu and you will see
- a help screen concerning the area of MouseMenu you're in at the
- time. For example, if you press F1 from the screen shown above,
- you will see a help screen about how to use the Main Menu screen of
- MouseMenu. If you press F1 from the SETUP screen, you will see a
- help screen about SETUP. This is true anywhere within MouseMenu.
- Press any key or mouse button to return from any help screen.
- (There is an exception to this rule in the SETUP help screen where
- you are given general information and are then asked if you want
- more specific help. In that case, the correct answers are "Y" for
- yes, "N" for no, or ESC to quit.)
-
- Pressing the F2 button (or clicking on the F2 display) from the
- Main Menu will give you some information on who may use MouseMenu
- and how to register the product (See Shareware -- What is it
- anyway?). Press any key or mouse button to return to the Main Menu
- screen from the information screen.
-
- Pressing F3 will put you in SETUP mode. This allows you to update
- your headings, the associated batch files, your screen colors, the
- title of each page of the menu, the number of seconds until the
- screen saver (blanker) is invoked, and the style of the screen
- blanker (plain blank, or eaten up by "moths"). Press ESC to return
- to the Main Menu from the SETUP screen. (See Updating the Data
- File.)
-
- Pressing the F4 key will put you in a DOS "shell." Your screen
- will clear and the message "Type EXIT to return to MouseMenu...."
- will appear along with your normal DOS prompt. Treat this as you
- would DOS until you're ready to return to MouseMenu. At that time,
- just type "EXIT" and you'll automatically return to the Main Menu
- screen (no matter which disk or directory you happen to be in at
- the time). One caution: don't forget you're in the DOS
- shell--some programs won't have enough memory to run while you're
- in the shell. Run big programs from MouseMenu's Main Menu instead.
-
- As you can see, MouseMenu is quite simple to operate. This makes
- it a great help to those who are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with
- DOS. At this point in time, someone who knows a little about batch
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- files must "set up" the menu for the novice user. The next release
- of MouseMenu (version 3.0) will include an automatic heading
- generation feature.
-
-
- 2 Updating the Data File
-
- MouseMenu stores all of the information it needs for the user's
- heading names, batch files, colors, etc. in a file named
- MOUSEMEN.DAT. This is a simple ASCII text file that you can type
- out and look at, if you desire. Although it is not necessary to do
- so, you may also use your favorite text editor to update the DAT
- file. However, MouseMenu has its own built in procedures to take
- care of this process.
-
- If your Menu is blank, or if you simply wish to modify your menu,
- press F3 from the Main Menu screen. The SETUP screen will then be
- displayed. From this screen you can add or delete headings, write
- or modify the batch files associated with these headings, update
- the menu's colors, change the title of any menu page, enter the
- number of seconds until the screen saver (blanker) is invoked, and
- choose the style of the screen blanker (plain black, or "moth-
- eaten").
-
- For example, let's say that we have a blank menu and that we wish
- to do the following:
-
- 1) Add a heading called "WordPerfect" that runs the word
- processor program and then returns us to MouseMenu
-
- 2) Change all the colors except the selection bar to white
- on black
-
- 3) Create a title for that page--let's call it "MAIN MENU"
-
- 4) Set our screen saver time to 60 seconds
-
- 5) "Turn on" the "Moths" screen saver
-
-
- In order to accomplish all of that we do the following:
-
-
- 2.1 Creating Menu Headings and Batch Files
-
- Press F3 from MouseMenu's Main Menu screen. Notice that the window
- labelled "Headings for Objectives" is highlighted. This is your
- "active window" and all of your cursor keys (except TAB) will apply
- to this window only.
-
- Move the cursor (using the arrow keys) to the last blank line in
- the list. (MouseMenu will not let you add a new heading in any
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- place other than the END of the list, unless you wish to INSERT it
- in the middle of a list of headings that have already been entered.
- We'll cover this step in a bit.)
-
- Press ENTER. A fat cursor will pop up inside the selection bar.
- Type in the words "WordPerfect" then press ENTER again.
-
- Press the HOME key to edit the batch file associated with the
- heading "WordPerfect." The Batch File Editor will appear on the
- screen. Just type in the batch file you want to execute. In this
- case, what we want to do is change directories to the WordPerfect
- directory, run the program, then return to MouseMenu. We write the
- following:
-
- CD C:\WP51
- WP
- CD C:\MOUSEMEN
- MOUSEMEN
-
- The above example assumes that WordPerfect is on the C: drive under
- a directory called WP51 and that MouseMenu is on the C: drive under
- a directory called MOUSEMEN. (Note: Instead of the final two
- lines of the batch file above, we could have put "HOME," since this
- is basically what the HOME.BAT file does.)
-
- Now, press the F2 key to save this file and exit. At this point,
- the Batch File Editor will disappear and the SETUP screen will
- reappear with the new heading in place.
-
- We'll continue with our example in a moment, but while we're in the
- "Headings for Objectives" window, let's look at some more functions
- (If you're following along with the example, skip ahead to the
- section titled "Changing Screen Colors".):
-
-
- 2.2 Inserting a New Heading
-
- To insert a new heading in the middle of a list of existing
- headings,enter the HEADINGS FOR OBJECTIVES window, then put the
- cursor where you want the new heading to go and press the INSERT
- key. A new space will appear in the heading list which may be
- altered using steps 1 in the process described above.
-
- 2.3 Deleting a Heading
-
- To delete an existing heading, move the cursor to the heading you
- wish to delete and press the DELETE key. You will be asked whether
- or not you really want to delete that heading. If you answer 'Y',
- the heading will be erased.
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- 2.4 Moving a Heading
-
- To move a heading, put the selection bar on the heading you wish to
- move, then press the "M" key. Use the arrow keys to move the
- highlighted heading anywhere in the list. Press ENTER to save the
- new list or ESCAPE to exit.
-
-
- 2.5 Creating a New Page
-
- When you have filled up a page, or whenever you wish, you may
- create a new page by pressing the Control and ENTER keys
- simultaneously while in SETUP. This will insert a blank page AFTER
- the page you are on. Use the steps described above to fill in the
- page.
-
-
- 2.6 Passing Parameters
-
- MouseMenu will also allow you to pass parameters to your programs
- or DOS commands. Use the process described in the section above,
- titled "Updating the Data File" to enter the Batch File Editor for
- a specific heading. Enter the DOS command or program name, then,
- keeping the cursor on that line, press F3. You will be prompted
- for a command line that will be echoed to the screen when this
- option is selected (the default is "Enter Parameter(s):"). You may
- wish to look at the example supplied with the sample MOUSEMEN.DAT
- in this package ("Run a DOS Command").
-
- NOW, let's go on with our example:
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- 2.7 Changing Screen Colors
-
- Now, press the TAB key once or click the mouse in the "Screen
- Colors" window to make it the active window. Use the cursor keys
- to move the cursor under the label marked BACKGROUND. Press ENTER
- (or the +/- keys) to scroll through the choices. Stop when the
- background inside the window is black and the foreground is NOT
- flashing. Move the cursor under the FOREGROUND label and press
- ENTER until the FOREGROUND is white. Repeat this procedure with
- the FRAME, TITLE, and TIME/DATE labels. When finished, press TAB
- to lock these colors into the menu. You may also use the mouse to
- click into another active window. Once you leave the "Screen
- Colors" window, you will see the screen update to your new color
- scheme.
-
- If you ever mess up your color scheme so badly that you don't even
- want to look at the screen any more (and it isn't hard, believe
- me), all you have do to is move the cursor under the label DEFAULT
- COLORS and press ENTER. If you don't want the default colors but
- would rather have the last set of colors you had, move the cursor
- under the label LAST SAVED and press ENTER. Any time along the
- way, if you haven't already "set" the colors by hitting the TAB key
- or changing to another window with the mouse, you can get out of
- the color window by hitting escape. This will exit the "Screen
- Colors" window without any effect on your colors.
-
- 2.8 Titling a Page
-
- At this point, you should be in the "Other Items" window. (If you
- aren't, just press the TAB key or use your mouse until the "Other
- Items" window is highlighted.) Put the cursor on the space after
- TITLE and press ENTER. Type in "MAIN MENU" and press ENTER. The
- new title is now saved.
-
-
- 2.9 Changing Screen Saver Time
-
- Move the cursor to the SCREEN SAVER TIME option and press ENTER.
- Use the BACKSPACE key to delete the default time of 180 seconds and
- enter "60" then press ENTER.
-
-
- 2.10 Invoking the "Moths" Screen Saver
-
- Move the cursor next to the "MOTHS" - TYPE SCREEN SAVER SELECTED
- option. If it reads "OFF" then press the ENTER key to turn it ON.
-
- Press ESCAPE to return to the menu screen. The new headings should
- be in place. If you wait for more than 60 seconds before touching
- the keyboard or the mouse, the screen will be "eaten up" by multi-
- colored "moths." If it is, press any key (such as the SPACE BAR)
- and the Main Menu screen will reappear. (The purpose of the screen
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- saver is to blank the screen while the computer is not in use. The
- number entered in SETUP mode, is the number of seconds MouseMenu
- waits after a key has been pressed before it blanks the screen.)
-
- You may also use the process described in step 1 above to change
- any existing heading.
-
-
- 3 Advanced SETUP Information (DAT File Specifics)
-
- If you wish, for some reason, to edit the MouseMen.Dat file with a
- text editor, read thoroughly through this section first.
-
- The DAT file is comprised of text symbols which let MouseMenu know
- exactly what your menu set up is. The first character of each line
- is a text symbol. The following table will help you to understand
- just what these symbols are:
-
- ╔══════════════╤═════════════════╗
- ║ Text Symbol │ Symbol Meaning ║
- ╟──────────────┼─────────────────╢
- ║ # │ End of Page ║
- ╟──────────────┼─────────────────╢
- ║ % │ Page Title ║
- ╟──────────────┼─────────────────╢
- ║ * │ Heading Name ║
- ╟──────────────┼─────────────────╢
- ║ + │ Line of Batch ║
- ╟──────────────┼─────────────────╢
- ║ - │ Line of Batch ║
- ║ │ With Parameter ║
- ╟──────────────┼─────────────────╢
- ║ ! │ Formatting ║
- ╚══════════════╧═════════════════╝
-
- If a "-" symbol appears at the first of a line, it tells MouseMen
- that when the batch file is created, more text should be added on
- that particular line. (Ex: the name of a file to be edited when
- you invoke your editor.) To do this, simply type:
-
- -"Enter File Name:"Editor
-
- This will create a batch file to start Editor. But, before it does
- so, it will prompt the user with the request "Enter File Name:".
- The prompt for the user will be whatever you put in the double
- quotes. If no prompt is specified, the default is "Enter
- Parameter(s):" The text entered will be placed at the end of the
- Batch Line. This means that if you were to type out the batch file
- (MouseTmp.Bat), it would look like this:
-
-
- 10
-
-
-
- Editor Filename
-
- If this is confusing, look at the example DAT file included with
- the MouseMenu package. You can avoid a lot of pain by using the
- MouseMenu batch file editor instead of doing this yourself.
-
- The Formatting symbol "!" lets MouseMenu know what the colors, time
- to screen saver, and other user-selectable options are. The
- exclamation point is followed by a one or two-letter code, a space,
- and then a number. Depending on the code, the number can mean a
- color, a time, or a function. Here is a table which could help you
- understand this better:
-
- ╔═════════════╤═════════════════════════════╤═══════════════════╗
- ║ Format Code │ Code Meaning │ Number Meaning ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ F │ Foreground Color │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ B │ Background Color │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ FR │ Frame Color │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ FB │ Foreground of Bar │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ BB │ Background of Bar │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ T │ Time Display Color │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ TI │ Title Color │ Color (0 .. 15) ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ TO │ Time Until Screen Blanked │ Number of seconds ║
- ╟─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
- ║ MO │ "Moths" Screen Saver │ 1=On 0=Off ║
- ╚═════════════╧═════════════════════════════╧═══════════════════╝
-
- The numbers for the colors are the standard 16 text screen colors,
- as defined below:
-
- 0 = Black
- 1 = Blue
- 2 = Green
- 3 = Cyan
- 4 = Red
- 5 = Magenta
- 6 = Brown
- 7 = Light Gray
- 8 = Dark Gray
- 9 = Light Blue
- 10 = Light Green
- 11 = Light Cyan
- 12 = Light Red
- 13 = Light Magenta
- 14 = Yellow
- 15 = White
- 11
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-
- If there are no colors specified, then MouseMenu defaults to the
- following configuration:
-
- F = 15
- B = 1
- FR = 11
- FB = 0
- BB = 7
- T = 10
- TI = 12
- TO = 180
- MO = 0
-
- Once again, it's a lot easier to use the SETUP screen that
- MouseMenu provides, but you can edit the DAT file directly with
- this information.
-
-
- 4 Expanding MouseMenu
-
- Since MouseMenu allows the user up to 8 pages of headings, with 16
- headings per page, a maximum of 128 batch files can be accessed by
- a touch of a key or a flick of the mouse. However, if MouseMenu is
- used on a directory-by-directory basis, the only limit to the
- number of accessible batch files is the amount of free space on the
- disk.
-
- To do this in the most effective and space-saving manner, place
- MOUSERUN.EXE in a pathed directory (such as the root or a utility
- directory - many people create a directory called "MouseMen" which
- they add to their PATH). Now, MouseMenu may be executed from any
- directory on the disk. However, MouseMenu looks in the current
- directory for the data file MOUSEMEN.DAT. The user may therefore
- place a different version of MOUSEMEN.DAT in each directory on the
- disk (different headings, colors, titles, screen saver times,
- etc.). This is particularly helpful on computers which have
- several users: each user may have his or her own menus!
-
-
-
- 5 Known Problems
-
- Version 2.9.3 of MouseMenu has been thoroughly tested by many users
- and most of the problems found from version 1.0 on have been
- corrected. However, there are sill a few bugs that have yet to be
- worked out. First, for some unknown reason, the heading editor in
- SETUP will sometimes cease to work. If that happens, you'll be
- forced to edit the MouseMen.Dat file with a text editor to change
- the names of your headings. (Note: although this problem has been
- reported a couple of times, it is still very rare.)
-
- MouseMenu also takes up a great deal of memory while it is in the
-
-
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-
-
- DOS Shell mode. Although you can do normal DOS functions (copy,
- delete, format, etc.), and many programs do run fine, some programs
- just won't have enough memory to load, and others will load but
- will lock up your computer. Be careful running DOS programs in the
- Shell -- don't forget that you are in the shell and run MouseMenu
- again! MouseMenu is one of the programs that will load even inside
- the DOS shell, but you'll suddenly find that you don't have enough
- memory to do anything. The DOS shell is very useful, but don't
- overuse it!
-
- If any more problems are discovered, please let me know by mailing
- a letter or a post card to the address listed above, or by E-
- mailing me on Prodigy or America Online.
-
-
- 6 Summary
-
- I hope you enjoy using MouseMenu. I wrote this menu for my own
- personal use and the use of my family and friends. Most of the
- improvements since version 1.0 (and there have been several) are
- the direct result of input from my friends and family. I thank all
- of you who helped me by "alpha" and "beta" testing this product for
- so long.
-
- Please use MouseMenu as much as you want. Let me know if you find
- any new or different uses for it (I've run across several
- interesting uses and would be fascinated to hear others).
-
- MouseMenu! It's FUN! HEY, IT'S CHEAP!
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-
-
- INDEX
- Subject Page Number
-
- America Online 1, 13
-
- Colors 5, 6, 9, 11
-
- Default Colors 9, 12
-
- Default Prompt (Passing Parameters) 8, 10
-
- Default time 9
-
- DOS 8
-
- DOS 3.30 2
-
- DOS 3.X 3
-
- DOS Shell 5, 13
-
- Fee 1, 3
-
- FREEWARE 3
-
- HOME.BAT 2, 4, 7
-
- Memory 3, 5, 12
-
- MicroSoft■ 1
-
- MOUSEMEN.BAT 1, 2, 4
-
- MOUSEMEN.DAT 2, 6, 8, 10, 12
-
- MouseMenu 3.0 3, 6
-
- MOUSERUN.EXE 2, 12
-
- MouseTmp.Bat 4, 10
-
- Prodigy 1, 13
-
- Registration 1-3
-
- Requirements 3
-
- Screen saver 5, 6, 9, 11, 12
-
- SHAREWARE 1-3
-
- Upgrades 3
-
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-
-
- ----------------------- PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY ------------------------
-
-
- David R. Webb | NAME: _____________________________
- P.O. Box 17 |
- Kaysville, UT 84037-0017 | ADDRESS: _____________________________
- |
- | CITY: ____________________________
- |
- | STATE: _____________ ZIP: _________
- |
- | Phone: ( ) ____________________
-
-
- PROGRAM USERS:
-
- Quantity of Users: ______ X $5.00/User = Amount Enclosed: _________
-
- VERSION OF MOUSEMENU:
- (Press F2 from the main screen.)
-
- If you do not have the most current release of MouseMenu, it will be
- sent to you. Please, let me know what disk size to use (all disks
- are low density).
-
- Version Number: ________________ Floppy Disk Size: __________
-
-
- FOREIGN PAYMENT: All payments must be in U.S. Dollars drawn on a U.S.
- Bank.
-
- PAYMENT: Send Check or Money Orders ONLY. Personal CHECKS require 10
- working days to clear the bank before your order is shipped.
-
-