#Menu Interface?
After many years of using the command interface, I finally crumbled and
wanted a menu interface to my common office work functions like word
processing and spreadsheets, and for my kids to access games. What with
directories of documents, etc., there was just too much that I didn't want
to remember?
I didn't see one lying around for the 'Bow, so I wrote one in Turbo Pascal.
Actually, I started with Marc E Kenig's TurboMenu-RB and added an indexed
file to store the menu data in.
I named it AUTOMENU, which was pretty unimaginative. It turns out that
there's a shareware goodie for the I*M PC with that name, so I'm shopping
for a new name.
I'm also shopping for a decent interface for MAINTAINING the menus.
Myprogram has a built in menu option for menu database maintenance, but
it's so clumsy that I can't use it effectively mysaelf. I have also been
too embarrassed by this shortcoming that I haven't wanted to upload the
program in its current state.
It allows for a hierarchy of menus about 10 deep. My deepest menu is three
from the top. It implements options other than submenus by invoking
COMMAND.COM and passing the specified command line to it. I bootstrap it
from AUTOEXEC.BAT, or return to it by calling it up, if I've been doing
commands "A la carte" for a while.
Is anybody else interested in a menu interface like this? It's humbler
than a window, but it beats banging your head against the wall 🙂 If
anyone else IS interested, how would you like to help me design a DECENT
interface for menu database maintenance, so I can write it, and upload the
package here?
I almost forgot, anybody got a good name for such a thing?