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- 5/13/88
- INSTANT PULL DOWN MENUS DEMO
- by Bob Foley
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- This document is a re-write of what used to be a document
- explaining how to use an Instant Menus demonstration for
- WordStar. That document read more like a gripe list than a
- tutorial on Instant Menus. Fortunately, Word Perfect is a much
- better program than WordStar, but it is still far from perfect. I
- still find myself trying to remember an array of key combinations
- or squinting at the keyboard overlay to perform a simple task.
- That was my motivation for developing INSTANT MENUS. I wanted
- something that would provide an interface between me and my
- machine that would DO THE WORK FOR ME, and work with virtually
- ANY PROGRAM. The result was better than I had hoped, all this and
- NO PROGRAMMING! I was able to create working pull down menus for
- every program that I tried with one exception (and I'm working on
- that one). The programs that worked include WordStar, Word
- Perfect, Procomm, GWBASIC, BASICA, Q-PRO 4, and Office Writer.
- The program that wouldn't work was ASEASY (a Lotus 123 clone).
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- HOW TO USE THE WORD PERFECT MENU DEMO
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- To run the Word Perfect menu demo, put the WPM.EXE program on
- your Word Perfect directory and type:
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- WPM <file name>
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- The <file name> is optional. WPM 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 abort the menu process. It's that simple. No more
- remembering (Alt-F7) or any of those other ridiculous key
- combinations! Use WPM just as if it were WP, including specifying
- a file name on the command line.
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- Now you can use a MicroSoft compatible mouse under MS-DOS 3.0 or
- higher to work the menus! The right button activates and de-
- activates the menu, and the left button selects a function. Try
- it with WPM.
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- HOW TO ORDER INSTANT MENUS
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- Instant menus comes with the MENU MAKER and several
- demonstration menus. It requires no programming, just specify the
- program name, create the menus, and define the keys...that's it!
- You can even re-define the menu access key (the Word Perfect demo
- uses Alt-Z). Create menus for all of your favorite programs. An
- Instant Menu may have up to 12 menus each with 14 menu
- selections. Each menu selection can activate up to 10 key strokes
- making it ideal for 10 character macros too. Programmers relax,
- the work has been done for you!
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