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- The ultimate menu editor for RemoteAccess 2.0X
-
- version 3.00
-
- Developed by Alon Gingold
-
- Hitch Hiker's BBS
- 2:405/0
- +972-9-984-259
-
- email: gingold@datasrv.co.il
-
-
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
-
- Welcome to Menu Wizard !
- If you have not registered MenuWiz , please check MENUWIZ.REG for
- more information about registration. Writing MenuWiz took an
- amazing number of hours , so Please register.
-
- MenuWiz is a sophisticated menu editor for RemoteAccess. It now
- supports ONLY RemoteAccess 2.0X. It is VERY user friendly , and
- allows the sysop to easily find his way around his menus.
-
- MenuWiz features include :
-
- * BBS Simulation lets you 'walk around' the BBS and zoom in on
- a menu you wish to change. Display is exactly like as logged in.
-
- * Desktop of unlimited number of open menus at the same time.
-
- * Each entry in the menu is displayed as a single line. This line
- will only display selected fields. 4 different line display
- configurations.
-
- * Configurable external list of RemoteAccess menu types.
-
- * Full support for multi languages.
-
- * Full support for RA's Limits, Groups and Nodes limits !
-
- * Use of HOTKEYS both in the BBS simulation AND the menus themselves.
- A Hot key of 'Goto/Gosub/Return' commands will automatically open
- and focus on the correct menu. (Registered only)
-
- * Enhanced Search & Replace. You can modify all the menus
- in all the languages with one action ! (Registered only)
-
- * Execution of external editors and shell (i.e. you can run
- Thedraw or other ANS/ASC/AVT/RIP editors directly from
- MenuWiz. (Registered only)
-
- * Full control over the program's COLORS.
-
- * Comprehensive Online help.
-
- * Full Mouse support.
-
-
- This document is not complete. It will not explain all of MenuWiz
- functions. You may find more information in the online help.
- Anyone willing to rewrite/change this document will be more then
- welcomed (and will receive a free registration , of course)
- Please write me if you wish to do so.
-
-
- History
-
- MenuWiz was originaly developed for QuickBBS in the days of
- Adams, and later modified for RemoteAccess. This version
- doesn't support QuickBBS at all , since I , as many others in
- the 'shareware world' usually write software for their own
- use, and I use RemoteAccess.
-
- This version of MenuWiz was supposed to get release about few
- years ago <grin>. I'm sorry for all the folks who waited until
- now for MenuWiz that supports RemoteAccess 2. I have to
- emphasize that the registrations for the previous versions of
- MenuWiz did not cover much of my development time, so I moved
- to some more profitable sources of incoming ;-)
-
-
- Development tools
-
- MenuWiz was written using Borland's Turbo Pascal with the
- Turbo Vision user interface. I would like to say that Turbo
- vision is a great environment to use. It gives Menuwiz the
- multi windowing which allows multiple menus to be opened at
- the same time.
-
-
-
- Credits and Acknowledgments
-
-
- Thanks for all the people who helped me in the development
- and testing of MenuWiz.
-
- Dror Tirosh - who help me in troubleshooting many Turbo Vision
- problems.
-
- Gal Hammer - who nagged me to get the new version out, and
- found some bugs for me to fix.
-
- I would also like to thank Andrew Milner for allowing me to be
- in the RemoteAccess beta team.
-
-
- Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International.
- RemoteAccess is a trademark of Wantree Development & Andrew Milner
-
-
- Technical Support
-
- If you have any problems using MenuWiz please let me know.
- I will check such problems and will do my best to get them
- fixed ASAP. Ideas for new features will be welcomed as well.
-
- Fidonet : Alon Gingold , 2:405/166
- RANet : Alon Gingold , 73:7725/0
- Internet : gingold@datasrv.co.il
- Compuserve : Alon Gingold , 100274,2301
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
-
- Installation is very easy. Simply create a subdirectory and open
- this archive there. Make sure you have the 'RA' dos variable set
- correctly.
-
- Please don't try to use MenuWiz with RA 1.11. I'm not sure what
- that will do, but it will certainly not work.
-
- The files you have just opened are :
-
- MWIZ.EXE - the executable program.
- MENUWIZ.DOC - this doc file.
- MENUWIZ.HLP - MenuWiz online help.
- MENUWIZ.CMD - RemoteAccess Menu types. This is a text file
- that MenuWiz build the type selection menu from.
- You can edit it and rearrange it as you wish.
- Just make sure to save the original file in
- case you trash it.
- MENUWIZ.REG - Registration information.
-
-
- Before running MenuWiz please make a backup of all your menus.
- MenuWiz works great here, but any problem that might cause the loss
- of your menus is not my responsebility !
-
- Now you can simply run MWIZ. Ignore the error message about the
- configuration file that was not found. Just press ENTER.
-
- If everything is ok , you should see your TOP menu.
-
-
-
-
- GETTING STARTED
- ---------------
-
- On the top line you can see the Menu. Each entry in the menu can
- be accessed by pressing Alt and the first letter of that Entry.
- The system menu can be accessed with Alt-Space.
-
- On the right you can see the current active language. 'Default'
- means the language set in RACONFIG System -> Paths -> Menus.
-
- On the Bottom right corner you can see the amount of free memory
- available for use. If this number is less then 50000 ,you're
- short in memory. Don't try opening too many menus at the same time.
-
- The rest of the screen is used for the menu window itself. You can
- use your mouse to close the menu (press the BOX in the left upper
- side of the window) , move it (press the title , move the mouse
- and release the mouse), resize it (catch the bottom left corner
- and move it) and scroll in it by pressing on the scroller.
- All these functions can be done by Keyboard. Check the Windows
- menu.
-
- The Title include the menu Language (meaning the menu was loaded
- from that language menu directory) , the Ruler number (a Ruler
- is a configuration of fields that are shown in the window. Ruler
- [1] is set , at startup, to include all fields), and the menu name.
-
- You can scroll to the right to see the rest of the fields not
- visible in the window.
-
- Below are some basics about the use of MenuWiz functions. You may
- find more information in the online help.
-
- Rulers
-
- Try using Alt-F1 to switch to the other Rulers (there are 4 rulers).
- You can setup the rulers in the Config -> Rulers , where you can
- define which fields will be visible in each ruler: You can select
- How the 'Type' field will be shown (as the Command number , or as
- the description) , you can select which other fields will be
- visible, and you can select the visible width of the Data field.
-
-
- Editing Fields
-
-
- To edit a field press ENTER or click with the mouse.
- Press Enter to accept or ESC to cancel. Fields that open up a
- dialog box, can also be accepted by click on the OK button, or
- canceled with a click on the Cancel button.
-
-
- Type - The RemoteAccess Menu Type. Pressing ENTER will open
- a popup menu where you can change the Type.
- This popup menu is built from the MENUWIZ.CMD file,
- so you can modify it to fit your needs (i.e. change
- the language).
-
- Key - Press Ctrl-A for Automatic execution type.
-
- Flags - You can use 'X','O','-' or Space to toggle. Use the
- left and right arrows to move.
-
- Limits - Press Enter on the '' to open a dialog where you can
- set all the other limitations on the current menu
- entry.
-
- Groups - Press Enter on the '' to set which groups should be
- able to run this command.
- Press Tab once and then use the arrow keys to move
- around the flags. Use 'X' to tag and '-' to untag
- or Space to toggle. Each line is a set of 32 flags.
- The number on the left of the line is the Group
- number of the first flag. The number on the right is
- the last. You'll probably never use anything from
- the second line to the last.
-
- Nodes - Press Enter on the '' to set which nodes should be
- able to run this command. The use of this field
- is exactly like the Groups field.
-
-
- Textline- This field is the text that will be written for each
- line. Most of you will never use these lines. Make
- sure to have a ';' in each line so that RA will not
- type a CR/LF for each menu entry. New menu items created
- by MenuWiz will always have a ';' in the text field. If
- you don't use the text field, you can use the Ruler setup
- to remove it from the display !
- For now, there's no way to modify the color and highlight
- color of the text line. The reason is, that I've only now
- realized it while writing this line <grin>. Since this
- field is mostly never used, I'll leave this to the
- 'bugfix' version.
-
-
- Simulation
-
- One of the great features of MenuWiz is it's BBS simulation.
- You can see the Menus as they look to the users, and you can
- zoom in any menu you want.
-
- To Run the BBS simulation Press Alt-B.
-
- To start simulation at the currently active menu , press
- Alt-A (Registered only).
-
- You can use the Hotkeys that are defined in the menus. If a
- HotKey is a goto/gosub/return type, it will open the correct
- menu and display it. Other functions will open a message box
- with the function and it's data.
- Pressing Space will open the current shown menu. Esc will exit.
-
- You can setup if you want to simulate in Ascii/Ansi , the
- security level to use for the simulation , the Flags to use
- and the simulated Baud rate. Use Alt-U to set these values
- up. Use the Config -> Simulate to set the default values
- of the above parameters that will be loaded with MenuWiz.
-
- You can also set the first menu where the Simulation will start
- (Auto Menu) in the Config -> Defaults.
-
- MenuWiz can start in simulation mode as soon as it's loaded. To
- set that up , set the 'Auto Simulate' in the Config -> Defaults.
-
-
- Externals (Registered only)
-
- You can setup external Editors and other shells to be used
- in MenuWiz. You can , by a key press load an external editor
- that will load the Ansi/Ascii 'Hot keys display' text , or any
- other text in your menu. MenuWiz will automatically change to
- the text file directory before executing the editors, and will
- change to the menus directory before executing other shells.
- You can setup the shells in the Config -> Externals. Read
- the online help about what kind of parameters are possible to
- use.
-
-
- Search & Replace (Registered only)
-
- The search and replace is a very smart engine. It can be used
- to search menu items by Type,Data substring, Flags, Sec level and
- KEY. It can also search all the open menus on the desktop, or all
- matching a wildcard. The Search & Replace can be executed on all
- the languages at once. Press Alt-R to enter the Search & Replace
- dialog.
-
- This dialog is divided into three parts : The 'Search for' box,
- the 'Replace with' box and the 'Options dialog'. Use OK to confirm
- or ESC to cancel. You can set Search for any combination of the
- six fields :
-
- <Type> Will search for entries with this type only.
-
- <Data> Will search for entries that has this substring in
- their Data field. The replace Data field will either
- replace all the Data field or only the Substring found
- (configurable).
-
- <Flags> The flags search and replace may be either in RA style,
- or in a full match and replace. (configurable)
-
- <Min-S> Search for this Sec level.
-
- <Max-S> Search for this Max Sec level.
-
-
- The options dialog sets the behavior of the search & replace.
-
- <Data field> If the search included a string in the Data field,
- and an entry is found that has that string in it's
- Data field (substring) then 'Change only' will tell
- MenuWiz to replace that substring in the found entry
- with the string that's in the replace Data field.
- 'Full Replace' will Replace ALL the Data Field in
- the found entry with the Replace Data field. If the
- search did not include any string in the Data field,
- a Full Replace is forced.
-
- <Flags Search> 'Full match' will only match entries that their
- flags field is EXACTLY like the search flags field.
- 'RA match' will match entries who will match each 'X'
- and 'O' that are set in the search flags.
- Any flag that is not set (i.e. '-') in the search
- flags will not be checked.
-
- <Flags Replace> 'Full Replace' will replace the entire Flags
- field with the one in the replace flags field.
- 'Change only' will Set or Unset the flags that are
- set with 'X' or 'O' and will leave the flags that are
- set with '-' as they were.
-
- <Menus to search> Will set the search to include the current menu,
- All the menus that are open in the desktop, or a group
- of menus that can be selected by a wildcard (i.e. '*'
- will select ALL the menus in the menus directory !!).
-
- <Menus Wildcards> This field is only used when 'Wildcards' is used
- in the Menus to search.
-
- <Languages> If this will be set to 'All', not only the menus set
- in the 'Menus to search' will be searched , but also
- the same menus in all other languages. (i.e.
- selecting a '*' in the 'menus to search' and 'All'
- in the Languages to search will search ALL the
- menus in ALL the languages !!)
-
- <Options> 'Case sensitive' - will set a case sensitive Data field
- search. 'No-Ask' - will NOT ask to confirm replace
- on each entry found. 'Menus No-Ask' will NOT ask to
- confirm the search on every menu that is to be
- searched (If more then one menu is set for the
- search, i.e. Wildcards,Desktop or All Languages)
-
-
-
-
- This is as much as I can get myself to write. Any problems you can't
- solve ? and crashes or UFOs ? tell me all about it :
-
-
- Alon Gingold
- Hitch Hiker's BBS
- Fidonet : 2:405/166
- RANet : 73:7725/0
- Internet : gingold@datasrv.co.il
- Compuserve : Alon Gingold , 100274,2301
-
-