#Menu Interface?
03-Sep-90 06:36:07
Sb: #21316-#Menu Interface?
Fm: David Cressey 73230,1665
To: Bill Mayhew [VAX/DECPC] 76702,502
You had to ask, didn't you… 😉
Well, here goes,
1) Somewhere along the line, I picked up the idea that most menu
packages did direct screen writes for speed, and that that would
prevent them from running in the 'Bow enviroment. From your comments,
I gather I'm mistaken.
2) The menu packages I looked at only allowed one level of sub-menus.
I wanted more. The one you describe (at work & not for MS-DOS)
seems like it fills the bill.
3) I'm thinking that, if things go well for the menu driver, I could
throw in a forms handler, a VideoText like message handler, and I'd
be a long way towards having a kind of useful information handler.
4) I have a few programs that I've written that use menus (or might
have menus added to them). I'd like the menus to be fairly
consistent.
and,
5) Awright, it is just for fun. I wanted an easy project to get started
with the Turbo Database Toolbox.
I gather, from the deafening roars of encouragement, that I'll probably be
the only user of this here thing. Oh well, at least it won't be hard to
schedule a user's meeting!
BTW, Thanks for sharing the syntax for your menu processor. It's certainly
better than what I have now!