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- * 1/27/89 - Lotus-like menus for Word Perfect. *
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- INSTANT MENUS DEMO for Word Perfect 5.0
- by Bob Foley
-
- Well, I finally got around to creating a Lotus-like menu
- system for Word Perfect. Well actually, they're more like Borland
- menus in that selected menu levels stay active until 'Esc' is
- pressed, bringing the user back to the previous level. All of the
- previous menus that I've created kept the vertical menus open all
- of the time (I prefer them that way on a monochrome monitor). The
- new arrangement works much better on CGA monitors whose displays
- tend to be very slow due to the infamous CGA "snow". When
- traversing the menus on a CGA, menus get painted very slowly.
- Using the new arrangement, with hot keys on the main menu bar,
- you can get where you want much faster.
-
- If you would like to get a hold of the non-Lotus menu demo
- for WP (mentioned above), look in the Compuserve WP5.0 area or
- some other BBS for WPM.ARC (or something to that effect) dated
- after 11/01/88.
-
- The commercial version (The Perfect Menu) now comes with
- both styles of menus...see below.
-
-
- I think you'll agree that the addition of pull down menus to
- Word Perfect increases its effectiveness dramatically. In fact,
- with the menu installed, Word Perfect has NO user interface...
- the menus do it all!
-
- Feel free to give this program to anyone you like ... it's
- free, all I ask is that this document accompany the program
- wherever it goes.
-
- The files accompanying this document, WPL.EXE and WPL.MNU are
- a pull down menu system for Word Perfect 5.0 created with Instant
- Menus. Many of the functions will not work properly with
- WordPerfect 4.2 (most DO work, though). If you have version 4.2,
- and would like to try pull down menus, look on your local
- bulletin board for WPMENU4.ARC (or something like that), or give
- me a call.
-
-
-
-
- HOW TO USE THE WORD PERFECT MENU DEMO
-
- To run the Word Perfect menu demo, put the WPL.EXE program
- and the WP.MNU menu file on your Word Perfect 5.0 directory and
- type:
-
- WPL <file name>
-
- The <file name> is optional. WPL will search for WP.EXE on
- the current path and, in turn, run it. Once in the editing mode,
- you'll notice that Word Perfect hasn't changed a bit! Now press
- Alt-Z, and you'll be treated to a pull down menu describing many
- of the options familiar to Word Perfect users. Press the UP,
- DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT keys until the option that you want is
- highlighted. Press ENTER and the function is performed or press
- ESC to back out of each menu layer. Pressing ENTER on the main
- menu bar opens the menu beneath it. Pressing ESC brings you back
- to the main menu bar. Press ESC again to quit the menu altogether
- without doing anything. It's that simple. No more remembering
- Alt-F7 or any of those other ridiculous key combinations (throw
- that keyboard template across the room)! Use WPL just as if it
- were WP, including specifying a file name and options on the
- command line. WPL is NOT memory resident - once you exit WP the
- menu no longer takes up memory! It is important to note, however,
- that WPL WILL NOT WORK if you type this:
-
- \WP\WPL <file name>
-
- and '\WP' is not a directory in the current PATH. WP MUST be in
- the current directory OR on the current PATH, otherwise WPL will
- not be able to find it.
-
- The menu can also be activated by a MicroSoft compatible
- mouse. The right button activates and de-activates the menu, and
- the left button selects a function. The mouse can also be
- employed to move the mouse throughout your text file!
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Some computers (usually fast ones) don't react
- properly when you press Alt-Z because of the keyboard processing
- of Word Perfect 5.0. They give the message "ALTZ.WPM not found."
- If this is the case with your computer, add the following line to
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- set wp=/nk
-
- and everything should be fine. If you want to test this theory
- first, type:
-
- wpl /nk
-
- when you run the menu program.
-
-
-
-
- HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MENU'S COLORS
-
- It has come to my attention that some video displays,
- particularly EGA, VGA and laptop LCDs don't show the menu in the
- intended color scheme. I am now including PIMCOLOR.EXE which
- allows you to change the colors of the menu. To run the program
- on WP.MNU type:
-
- PIMCOLOR WP.MNU
-
- You will see a color chart from which to pick numbers that
- correspond to the colors in which they are shown. Just type in
- color numbers that you think will look nice on your monitor, then
- answer 'Y' when asked to save the menu. Your WP menu is now
- installed with your colors.
-
- ATTENTION HERCULES' RAM-FONTS USERS: As is, the menu will look
- lousy when using Hercules' RamFonts. Sherman Wilcox of
- Albuquerque, NM suggests using the following set of colors to
- make it look nice: 3,11,11,2. This set of colors (or fonts in
- this case) will show the menu in normal type, the current
- selection in big type, and the description line in italics.
- Brian Jeffery of Carp, Ontario likes these colors on his RamFont
- board 3,64,11,112.
-
-
-
- WHAT IS INSTANT MENUS?
-
- WPL was created with a software package called Instant Menus
- (PIM). What PIM did for Word Perfect, it can do for any program.
- There is NO PROGRAMMING and NO CRYPTIC FILES to create (Mouse
- Menus users, you know what I mean). Just type the text for each
- menu selection in the Instant Menus' menu maker program, press
- the actual keys which will perform that function, and that's it
- ... you've made a menu!
-
- Instant Menus can help you create pull down menus for
- virtually any program. It is almost totally configurable, from
- the activation key to the 3 colors allowed for EACH menu. Its
- hierarchical structure allows the creation of sub-menus, and sub-
- sub-sub-menus (see the Retrieve option of WPL). Here is a list of
- some of its features:
-
- * Unlimited number of vertical and horizontal menus.
- * Unlimited number of menu selections.
- * Unlimited length of text for each menu selection.
- * Activate up to 20 keys with each menu selection.
- * 'Hot' (highlighted) keys everywhere.
- * Configure 3 colors for EACH menu.
- * Optional, variable length description line for EACH menu
- selection.
- * Place menus anywhere on the screen (think of it, pull UP
- menus?).
- * Optional auto-menu display. Allows Lotus-like menus.
- * Mouse compatible. Optional mouse cursor movement external
- to the menu (try moving the mouse around in your Word
- Perfect file!).
- * Configurable menu activation key.
- * Choose from 5 border styles (including none).
- * Test mode for testing menus...while you create them!
- * Chain to another menu file, under menu or program control.
- * ...and more.
-
- And it comes with ready to use menus for Word Perfect, WordStar,
- Procomm and Qmodem.
-
-
-
- HOW TO ORDER INSTANT MENUS
-
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-
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