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Menu V2.0 90-06-18
This program may be spread freely as shareware only in Menu.zoo or if Menu.zoo
is included.
The files are:
Menu
Menu-Setup
readme
MENU
Menu is a fast access menu system for all Amiga users. This program is meant
to avoid the problems to find and start your favorite program some where out
on your hard disk or on your disk. Menu reads the ASCII file in SYS:s/ named
MENU-SETUP or the file you enter in the command line to know that you like
to have in the menus.
How to USE
On one sheet there are ten menu items. Plus one menu head. You choose between
them by pressing one of the keys F1 to F10 or choose on one of them with the
mouse. To get to the main menu press ESC or hit the right mouse button. Menu
will also quit if you choose the quit gadget in upper left corner. If you
choose the back gadget in upper right corner menu will do ScreentoBack and
place its screen behind the other screens.
After Menu has been started it always shows menu sheet Zero (0), therefor you
must have your main menu on sheet zero.
One sheet consist of one menu head and ten selectable menu items. The menu
head is a 60 characters line (topaz 9 font) and the menuitems are 80 characters
lines (topaz 8 font). Each line can be printed in one of sixteen colors that
the user defines in MENU-SETUP. The shades that the text are printed on are
defined with the colors 13,14,15.
The ASCII file
In each menu entry there are several possible things to do:
MENU Jump to a new menu sheet.
END Run a program and quit Menu.
WBEND Activate Workbench, run a program and quit Menu.
RUN Run a program BUT don't quit Menu.
WBRUN Activate Workbench, run a program BUT don't quit Menu.
If a command is something different than stated above that entry will be
a comment.
One of the above commands
\
\ If command is MENU state
Rowstart Menurow \ here witch menu to choose
\ \ \ \
MI 0, 1, "Menu text" "Command" "Filepath" ,2 ,3
/ / / /
Menuside Text on the menu row / Color on menu text /
/
State here the filepath if
a program should be run
Limits
MENU-SETUP must not be bigger than 3K. This is only a demo version If
MENU-SETUP is bigger than 3K or if Menu can't find MENU-SETUP a error message
will be written.
You may not have more than 12 menusheets.
Menu text must not be more than 90 characters.
Command must not be more than 6 characters.
Filepath must not be more than 30 characters.
There are NO errorhandling in Menu, if a error occur everything after that
error will be real mess. This is to gain speed.
Example
This is an example MENU.SETUP. This file is made for an Workbench disk and you can
find it on the disk, put it in your S directory before you run Menu or type in Cli:
Menu <filename>.
COLORTABLE
0xaaa,0xc00,0xf00,0x00f
,0xff0,0x700,0xc08,0xf96
,0xd80,0x8f0,0x000,0x000
,0x000,0xccc,0x777,0x555
0 grey 1 red
2 red 3 blue 4 yellow 5 dark red 6 violet 7 orange 8 brown 9 green
MI 0,0 "MAIN MENU" "" "",0,12
MI 0,1 "F1 NewShell" "END" "NewShell",0,1
MI 0,2 "F2 Copy menu" "MENU" "",1,3
MI 0,3 "F3 Utility menu" "MENU" "",2,5
MI 0,4 "F4 Wordprocessing menu" "MENU" "",3,6
MI 0,10 "F 10 Quit" "QUIT" "",0,11
MI 1,0 "COPY MENU" "" "",0,14
MI 1,1 "F1 Diskcopy" "END" "SYS:System/Diskcopy",0,12
MI 1,2 "F2 Turbobackup" "END" "SYS:Turbobackup",0,12
MI 2,0 "UTILITY MENU" "" "",0,12
MI 2,1 "F1 Preferences" "END" "SYS:Preferences",0,4
MI 2,2 "" "" "",0,0
Comments may freely be inserted between the instructions in the ASCII
file, Spaces and tabs can be inserted between all groups of "" and ,
like below.
MI 3,0 "Wordprocessing menu" "" "" ,3 ,3
MI 3, 1 "F1 ED SYS:S/MENU-SETUP" "WBEND" "ED SYS:S/MENU-SETUP",3 ,3
Installation
To start Menu properly type Menu <startscript> or menu but then you must
have MENU-SETUP in your S directory.
If you want to contact me write to:
Stefan Mörnhag
Gräsängsvägen 9
230 30 Oxie
Sweden
P.S
I hope you enjoy Menu and maybe have some use of it!!!