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- To: Previous BATMNU Users
- RE: Changes... BATMNU v2.3
- October 10, 1993
-
- - Menu can now be positioned anywhere on the screen using the r and c
- switches. BATMNU automatically adjusts if changes in the menu would put
- it or the shadow off the screen.
-
- - If you prefer a narrow menu margin, use the "no_margin" keyword on the
- window line. This option increases the max title length to 60 and max
- option length to 56.
-
- - Headers and/or footers can now be configured as popup lines which disappear
- with the menu when an option is selected. Include the "popup" keyword on
- the appropriate format line to activate.
-
- - If you want the entire screen to be restored after an option is selected,
- include the "popup" keyword on the window line.
-
- - Option text can be returned through the environment. Using the new V switch,
- a number which relates how many characters to extract and an optional var-
- iable name, you can have option text inserted in the environment when an
- option is selected. One use is as a dynamic goto statement to direct the
- batch file. See NORTONV.BAT for an example.
-
- - The default for 2 column format for the menu has been increased to 14
- options rather than 12.
-
- - Encryption version of BATMNU introduced to help secure menu files from
- prying editors. Files are encrypted by separate program to keep people
- from screwing around with menu files.
-
- - BATMNU now returns EL 127 for internal errors such as "File not Found" and
- menu format errors. A line such as "if errorlevel 127 goto exit" can be
- included after the BATMNU call in the batch file to catch and smoothly exit
- the batch, especially during development.
-
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-
- *** New Utility Available! ***
-
- WHY DO USERS LIKE A MENU?
-
- Because it makes their life easier. Now there is something to make the menu
- designer's life easier! Now creation of the menu is taken out of your hands
- and onto the screen.
-
- The BatMnu Menu Utility makes creating menus fast and painless. It gives
- instant feedback on what your new menus will look like. Debugging the most
- sophisticated menu is now a chore of the past. Seasoned BATMNU users quickly
- find they wouldn't be without this utility.
-
- It's out of beta testing now, and available to all registered BATMNU users.
- Why do you need this? LOOK!
-
- - See your menu as you are creating it. Instant feedback on changes and
- additions. The menu has the same look and feel it will have with BATMNU.
- - No need to remember which switch does what.
- - Menus are created just by filling in forms, answering a few Yes/No
- questions or selecting values from a list.
- - Automatic formatting of the menu file.
- - Menus can be edited even if they are inside batch files.
- - Up to 16 menus from the same file can be edited at one time.
- - Rearranging options is as easy as highlighting the option and pressing
- a key.
-
- I know you will want the easiest way to create and edit menus for BATMNU.
- The BatMnu Menu Utility will make menu maintenance as easy as filling in a
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-
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