*** Note: For information on the 'Option' menu in Menu Maker Pro™, consult the information box on the title screen.***
Topics:
• About this Guide
• Key Terms
• What is Menu Maker Pro™?
• How to Register
• Liability information
About this Guide:
This guide has been specially created to guide you through the menu making process in the self contained HyperCard® development system. You may wish to refer to HyperTalk Reference guide, under "Menus" to learn more about the key words. Since this program was written for the everyday user, we have now included a list of key terms that you will need to know to make menus more effectively.
Key Terms:
• Menubar: The solid strip at the top of the screen used in almost every application for the Macintosh. According to the ATP (Apple Thought Police), all applications should include an Apple Menu, File menu, and Edit menu. However feel free to do what every you wish to customize your own stacks.
HyperCard commands: Hide menubar -- will hide the menubar until it is "SHOW"n
Show menubar -- shows the menubar when hidden
• Menuitem: The lines listed under each menu.
• Menu message: This is very important. If you are planning on using the menus you create with Menu Maker Pro™ in your own stacks, you will need a handler to intercept the "messages" sent when someone selects a menuitem. The menu message is the handler that you will use in your stacks to handle each menuitem. Normally, you name the handlers according to the menuitem name.
One of the buttons on the Work Screen of Menu Maker Pro™ has a button called "Set Menumessage". By setting a menumessage for each menuitem, Menu Maker Pro™ will create skeleton handlers for you. For instance, if you created a menuitem named "Beep...", you might name the menu message "BeepMM". Menu Maker Pro™ will then create a handler like this:
on BeepMM
end BeepMM
All you must do is add commands inbetween those 2 lines and whenever the "Save document..." menuitem is selected, those commands will be executed. Here is an example of what you might write IN YOUR OWN STACK AFTER YOUR MENUS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED:
on BeepMM
answer "Beep how many times?" with "3" or "2" or "1"
put it into howMany
beep howMany
end BeepMM
**** Extra Notes on Menu Messages:
It's a good idea to add "MM" after all menuitem handler names for 2 reasons. First, it is easier to tell them apart from normal handlers. Second, it protects you from accidentally intercepting a HyperCard command like "Quit".
• Command Characters: Command characters are "shortcuts" to many of the menuitems found in Macintosh menus. For instance, the "Q" found to the right of "Quit" in the File menu of this document, of the "P" found to the right of the "Print..." of the File menu. It enable the user to access that menuitem by pressing (and holding down) the Command button (also known as the "open apple" button) and one key.
For instance, pressing Command + "P" will access the "Print..." menuitem.
Menu Maker Pro™ allows you to give your menuitems their own command characters, using the "Set Command Char." button on the Work Screen.
For more information use Balloon Help while in the Work Screen.
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Menu Maker Pro™
V1.5 by BenSoft ™ & Ben Zadik
What is Menu Maker Pro?:
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Menu Maker Pro™ is a SHAREWARE Hypercard stack, that helps create menus in your own, personal stacks. All you do is point and click at the Menu Maker Pro™ buttons, to decide what to call your menus, what menuitems you would like, etc. By specifying the stack you want, Menu Maker Pro™ will write the scripts right into your stack! Or, if you like, you can just practice making menus that do not effect any stack.
How do I register?:
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It's easy! Just select "SW Registration..." from the "Options" menu. Or click on one of the many "Order Form" buttons throughout the stack! It will take you to 2 cards which serve as your order form. Simply fill out the text boxes, select the appropriate check boxes and your done! Use the "Print" menu and in a minute your order form is complete. Send it in with your check or money order to:
BenSoft Ltd.,
ATTN: Sales Department
6601 Horseshoe Lane
Huntington Beach, CA
92648-1525
*** Make your check or money order is payable to Ben Zadik.
In a couple of weeks, you'll receive your Registration password to eliminate the Shareware notice at the begining of the program. Remember, the SHAREWARE fee is only $10, or $15 for the most current copy on a disk.
*** Special reminder: Once you order, for this low price, you'll be guaranteed all other upgrades for free. You'll also be notifed by electronic mail.
Before reading this, keep in mind that BenSoft™ has not received any complaints towards the preformance of this product, and has not been known to cause any problems to any Macintosh.
WARNING: THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS ASSUMED BY YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU (AND NOT BENSOFT™ OR ITS DEALERS) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. FURTHER, BENSOFT™ DOES NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF, OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF, THE PROGRAM IN TERMS OF CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CURRENTNESS, OR OTHERWISE; AND YOU RELY ON THE PROGRAM AND RESULTS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
THEIR IS NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE THAT IS MADE BY BENSOFT™ ON THIS BENSOFT™ PRODUCT. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Menu Maker Pro & BenSoft are trademarks of BenSoft Ltd.
HyperCard is a registered trademark of Claris Corp.
Apple & Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc.
