Make CD Boot Menu

• Load/Create new boot menu file

1)Click "Open", a "Open Menu File" dialog will pop-up. Select file and click "Open".
(Note: The setup program automatically created a sample file named 'cdmenu.ezb', you can create your boot menu based on it in convenience)

2) Click ôNewö to create a new boot menu file.

• Five types of menu object

       1) Screen Layout: color areas on screen used as boot menu background, Parameters include Upper Left /Lower Right Coordinate and Background/Foreground colors. You can get 3D effect by tune 'edge' width and 3 color attribute.

                                 

2) Text: Text strings displayed on screen layout or menu bar, Parameters include Upper Left/Lower Right coordinate ,Text String, Color and Alignment style.
                        

3) Menu Bar: Highlighted bar on screen to indicate selectable boot menu item. There is a corresponded command with each menu bar. Parameters include Upper Left/Lower Right coordinates and Background/Foreground color. Other attributes as following:
   *Command to run: can be divided to two catalog
     a) run  -- load boot image  file, to boot DOS/98/NT/2000/XP
       Example: run dos98.img
                           run w2ksect.bin
     b) boot -- to boot from disk
           boot 80  boot from first hard disk
           boot 0    boot from first floppy
           reboot    reboot your computer
     (Note: if you want one menu to execute multiple command, simply separate them with a ";".

               for example: cd /; run cdmenu.ezb)

  *Accelerate Key: Key defined for select or directly execute menu command. Accelerate Key can be 0-9/a-z/A-Z.
  *Set as default: set current menu bar as the default highlight one when boot screen appears.
  *Cursor Key: when select a menu item, use up, down, left, right, tab key to move to next item. there are three conditions:
     a) 00 -- default, up, left to select previous item, down, right, tab to select next item.
     b) 99 -- disable, ignore cursor key press
     c) 01-36 -- directly jump to given menu item

       Set background color and foreground color the the same value to realize 'transparent text' effect. In other word, text use Highlight color for active menu bar and Normal color for inactive menu bar, no background displayed because it is same as foreground.
4) Function Key: run command according to  pressed key without visual appearance.
  Parameters include Function Key and command.

          Press the key and directly run command after boot menu appears.
                           
5) Global Parameters
  *Main Menu/Sub Menu: main menu file is loaded at CD-ROM boot up, sub menu is loaded by main menu or other sub menu by "run xxx.bin" command.
  *Default Menu Bar: the default highlight displayed menu bar at boot menu loaded.
  *Wait Time: after a boot menu is displayed, if no key pressed within given number of seconds, the default menu command will be executed automatically. This feature is very useful for  no attendant setup.
  *Logo Image: put logo image file (such as logo.bmp) into 'ezboot' directory,

            Logo image must be in size of 640x480 with 256 colors, it must be saved as windows .BMP file, no compression.

         *Background Image: put background image file (such as back.bmp) into 'ezboot' directory,

           This image must be in size of 640x480 with 256 colors, it must be saved as windows .BMP file, no compression.
  *Accelerate Key mode: you can set "select" or "directly run". If set "select", after a key pressed, only select the correspondent  menu bar, then press <Enter> or <SpaceBar> to execute.
  *Key transfer: can transfer all input key to upper case letter or lower case letter. You can also disable this function.
  *Other: Auto Load last accessed menu file, Preview window show/edit etc.

• Edit Menu Object

     Note: current object is highlighted in Control Panel Window object list; it is displayed with dashed line in Preview Window at the same time.  

       1) Most commonly used  function of Control Panel Window includes:
   *directly modify value of Upper Left/Lower Right coordinates, Foreground/ Background color and text, command, press <Enter> or Tab or select another object by mouse click will save modified data automatically.
   *click ôAppendö,ôInsertö to create new object, click ôDeleteö to remove a selected object.
   *click ôUpö,ôDownö to change the display order of objects.
   *click "Undoö to restore last state. Registered version support  36 level of undo.
   *you can set global parameters such as default menu bar, wait time .

2) Most commonly used function of Preview Window includes:
   *Left Mouse Button -- Click on screen object the first time to select it;
                                            Click selected object (or press SpaceBar) to start move object position;
                                            Click selected object (or press SpaceBar) the third time to change object size.
   *Right Mouse Button -- click to exit edit mode and save the data modified.

                                                        You can press <Enter> key instead.
   *ESC Key -- to cancel all modifies to current selected object and exit edit mode.
   *Tab Key-- select next object.
   *Delete Key-- delete the selected object.
   *BackSpace Key -- Undo, mostly 36 steps.
   *Cursor Key -- press Left, Right, Up, Down can move object
                               press PageUp, PageDown, Home, End can change object order.
 

• Save menu file

      Click "Save", will save the boot menu file, and generate boot loader automatically.

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