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- Turbo Menus 1.00
- Original Design and Development by Tony Bundschuh
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-
- The Menus In General:
- =======================
- The menus were written for RemoteAccess 2.00. Therefore, these menus will
- NOT work with RemoteAccess 1.11 or lower. If you have not registered
- RemoteAccess 2.00, some of the features available in the menus will not
- work for you. Because I am a registered user of RA, I have included some
- of the registered features in the pacakage. Therefore, PLEASE REGISTER
- REMOTEACCESS 2.00 so you can use all the features. At the same time,
- you will be supporting a wonderful shareware program.
-
- Requirements:
- ===============
- - ANSI (Menus will NOT work with ASCII). Your users who use the menus *MUST*
- have ANSI enabled. In the next version (if demand for one) there will be
- an ASCII set of menus.
-
- - RemoteAccess 2.00.
- (If you have a BBS up and running, you have everything necessary)
-
- *******************************************************************************
- * You *MUST* keep the VERY first option of the TEXTFILE section there!!! *
- * It CAN have a hot-key added; but it must stay there. You MAY NOT modify *
- * the "TMENUS.ANS" file that works in conjunction with that option. *
- * *
- * You *MUST* also keep the "Original Design and Development by Tony *
- * Bundschuh" and the "Turbo Menus; 1.00" on EVERY "MENU??.ANS" file. *
- * (I.E. Every (4) and (6) key call. *
- * ((If you change the name to something other then "MENU??.ANS" the same *
- * rule applies)) *
- * *
- * This is ALL I ask of you to allow you the use of the menus. Please *
- * respect that. *
- * *
- *******************************************************************************
-
- Very brief information on the menus:
- =====================================
- - I wrote the menus; and the ANSI files associated with the menus, because
- I had never seen anything quite like them. I have seen pull-down menus,
- but I have never seen scollable menus available for RemoteAccess.
-
- - All of the menus were created by me using RACONFIG.EXE.
-
- - All of the ANSI screens were hand-written by me using QEdit 2.1
- (except the TMENUS.ANS file)
-
- - You may use a program like "TheDraw" to modify the ANSI files; but be
- warned...They MUST be block saved and/or ANIMATED to do EXACTLY what I have
- done by hand or they WILL NOT work!!!
-
- - The menus are scrollable in all 4 directions (Up, down, left, and right).
- This is done with the numeric pad. 8 = Up, 2 = Down, 6 = Right, and
- 4 = Left. You may change this to any keys you want. But these seemed to
- work the best. ((The only keys you can not use are the arrow keys.))
-
- I have also added "Hot-Key" type support for the Message and File sections.
-
- NOTE: The reason I did not put hot-key support on all the menus is because
- you (the sysop) must configure the menus to look and work the way YOU
- want them. The menus are going to be modified by YOU. So there is no
- reason I should do everything if you are going to add and remove options.
-
- - There is help at the bottom of each menu option.
-
- - I have also incorporated some pop-up menus in the package. Please try the
- "Set Global Areas" or the "Bluewave" options under the message section;
- or look at the "Find A File" in the file section while running locally.
- You can add as many of these as you want; just follow the examples I have
- given.
-
-
- Using the menus:
- ==================
-
- - Make a directory for the files (i.e. C:\RA\PULLDOWN ).
- - Copy all the files in the archive (TMENUS.ARJ) to this area.
- - Load RACONFIG.
- - Make a new language in RACONFIG (i.e. Pulldown).
- - Fill in all the information necessary for the language.
- - Go the the menu editing section in RACONFIG.
- - Modify the "TOP.MNU" file so that it does what YOU want it to do.
- - Modify any other utility or game I have put in to suit your needs.
- I put a couple games in and a few utilities. Change or delete them as
- applicable. To see what I have included, it is best to load RA and see
- for yourself, rather then looking at the individual menus.
-
-
- That is all there is too it. If you want to try the menus, just change
- your language to whatever number the menus are at, and load RA.
-
- Common Questions (PLEASE READ!):
- ==================================
-
- Q: Where is the chat feature?
- A: There is none. I was not sure where the best place to put it would be.
- My suggestion is to make a GOBAL.MNU file and have the chat option there
- with "P" as (P)age
-
- Q: How do I register?
- A: Fill out the REGISTER.DOC file enclosed in the original archieve. Reg-
- istration is FREE, so there should be NO reason you should not register.
-
- Q: When I chat with a user, it always executes the command they are on when
- I exit chat. How do I fix this?
- A: Make sure your "ENDCHAT.A??" file does not have a Ctrl-A in it. This will
- cause a double CR when the user presses ENTER; therefore executing whatever
- option they were on.
-
- Q: Where does it show how much time a user has left online?
- A: In the Utility area. Also, I would suggest you put the time codes nec-
- essary on the line just above the help (at the bottom of the screen).
- I would also suggest that you have a seperate set of code at the end of
- the ANSI file that has the placement and color of the code. If it is
- with the line it will shift when inserted. If you you only have a max of
- 99 minutes to any user, then you may just make the line on the bottom a
- few characters shorter and put the code in. Entirely up to you.
-
- Final Note:
- =============
- Please keep this in mind...
-
- I have spent many months working on these menus. There have been countless
- hours put into the design and appearance of the menus.
-
- If you like the menus, please fill out the REGISTER.DOC form and send it
- to me. If enough people register the menus, I will be more willing to make
- updates. Registration is FREE, so I do not see ANY reason for someone that
- is going to use the menus not to register.
-
- Future Versions (If ANY):
- ===========================
- - Very extensive context-sensetive help via the "H" key on all menu options.
- - A possible utility that will add or delete options from menu sections.
- - A utility to take out more of the hand-written work sometimes
- required when writing ANSI by hand.
- - Anything someone requests (Provided it is within reason and humanly
- possible) <Grin>
-
- If there is something you would like to see added to the menus, please
- tell me...I do not know everything people want...Only *YOU* the SysOp
- know what *YOU* want.
-
-
- Technical Support
- ===================
-
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