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I have encluded a sample of QST's TOP menu as a sample of how to make
a type 40 menu. Type 40 menu's are much different to make and require
a Color and Graphic program. I use THEDRAW to make my screens. When
using THEDRAW, you must save the screen as a BLOCK save, otherwise the
screens will not look like they do to you after passing through the
modem to the user. To do a block save you have to put your cursor on
the upper left corner of the screen, press ALT-B, space bar, then cursor
down until you have the whole screen blocked. Once you block the whole
screen, press the space bar again and an option menu will appear. Press
[S] for Save, [A] for Ansi, the [C] key twice, two enter keys then type
in the name of the screen (TOP for TOP.ANS) and it will save the
changes. For Ascii, press the last space bar, select [I] for Ascii,
answer yes to the question and type in the name of the screen (TOP.ASC)
and it will save.
You will need to load your TOP.MNU into a menu editor and make sure the
first line in the menu (line 1) is different than the other lines. It
must have a Semi-Colon (;) in the first line, the name of the screen in
the DATA line, without an extension (TOP) because it will look for .ASC
or ANS depending on the user (if they didn't select color, it defaults
to the .ASC) color selection. The TYPE line must be a type 40, KEY line
must be a CTRL-A (happy face). The other questions in the 1st line
don't make any difference (leave security to 1 and colors to the default
settings).
Put your TOP.ANS and TOP.ASC into the textfile area and your TOP.MNU
should automatically end up in the MENUS directory.
After you complete the first line of your TOP.MNU and go to the other
lines, always begin the line with the Semi-colon (;) in the first line.
Make the remainder of the command lines whatever you want (except for
the color choices). For example the second line in top might read;
Str: ;
Data: APHORISM.CTL
Type: 85
Security: 1
Key: *
Flags: (set what you want)
That's all it takes. Good luck and a good rule to remember is KEEP IT
SIMPLE. Users get discouraged when a bbs is too hard to manuvre. I
always try to set up my bbs as though I was a first time bbs user and
make it simple to use.
I have also encluded a NEWUSER.Q-A for you to look at. It is quite
complex, but will give you a starting point to make a spiffy
questionaire.
Len Morgan, QST BBS Sysop