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INTRODUCTION
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Thank you for trying out the DMZ menu system. This program will allow
you to easily and quickly create and maintain your own menus for
running all of your PC applications. You can create up to nine menus
of twelve options each. This software is free of any defects to the
best of my knowledge. It is being distributed AS IS, with no warranty
implied. I will not accept responsibility for any inadvertent damage
to your computer or data that may result through using this software.
I can't even imagine how that could happen, but I feel it necessary to
make that perfectly clear. If you consider this program to be useful
and find yourself using it on a regular basis after a reasonable
evaluation period, I would appreciate a small donation of five dollars
($5.00). Please make checks payable to:
David M. Zarder
W56 N437 Lenox Pl. Suite #2
Cedarburg, WI 53012
FILES INCLUDED IN THE ZIP FILE "DMZMENU.ZIP"
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- MENU.EXE - main program file.
- MN.BAT - Batch file for running program MENU.EXE.
- MENU.DAT - data file containing user created menus.
- MENUEDIT.EXE - Program for creating and editing menus and menu options.
- READ.ME - This document.
- Note : The program will automatically create two additional small files
when you run the program.
1) MENU.CFG - contains default color settings and screen saver
parameters.
2) LASTMENU.DAT - contains the name of the last menu that was active
when the program was exited. This allows the menu program to
display that same menu upon starting the program the next time.
INSTALLING AND STARTING THE SOFTWARE
------------------------------------
- Create a new directory on your hard disk.
- Copy the above files to the new directory.
- Type "MN" and press enter to start the menu program.
- The following example would install the menu software from a diskette
in your "A" drive to a subdirectory called "MENU" on your "C" drive.
The last line in the example will start the program.
C:
CD \
MD MENU
CD \MENU
COPY A:*.* C:\MENU
MN
- To have the menu program load automatically when your computer is
turned on, add the following two lines to the end of your
autoexec.bat file:
CD \MENU
MN.bat
RUNNING THE MENU PROGRAM
------------------------
DMZ Menu comes with a couple of sample menus, just to give you a feel
of how to create your own and how to use them. Each menu name will
appear across the menu bar at the top of the screen. One menu can be
active at any particular time. To switch to a different menu, either
use the left and right arrow keys, or press the number associated with
the menu (e.g. "1", "2", "3", etc). To Select a menu option, either
use the up and down arrow keys and press the enter key, or press the
letter key associated with the option (e.g. "A", "B", "C", etc). To
enter the menu maintenance mode, where you can create and maintain your
own menus, press the <F2> key. To exit the program and return to DOS,
press the <Esc> key.
RUNNING THE MENU MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
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To start the menu maintenance program, press <F2> from the main menu
screen. Two windows will be displayed: 1) The MENU window contains a
list of all menus that have been created, 2) the OPTIONS window
contains a list of all options defined for the currently selected menu.
Only one of these two windows is active at any particular time (the
active window is the one with the highlighted title). To switch
between the two windows, use the left and right arrow keys.
- ADDING A NEW MENU: Make sure that the MENUS window is active. Press
the <F1> key. Type the name of the menu and press <Enter>.
- CHANGING THE NAME OF AN EXISTING MENU: Make sure that the MENUS
window is active. Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the
menu to be renamed. Press the <Enter> key. Type the new name and
press <Enter> again.
- DELETING AN EXISTING MENU: Make sure that the MENUS window is active.
Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the menu to be deleted.
Press the <F2> key. If you really do want to delete the menu, press
<F2> again when prompted, otherwise press <Esc> and the menu will NOT
be deleted. Be careful when deleting menus, because any options
defined for that menu will also be deleted.
- MOVING AN EXISTING MENU TO A NEW LOCATION: Make sure that the MENUS
window is active. Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the
menu to be moved. Press the <F3> key (the menu name will appear in
reverse video). Use the up and down arrow keys to move the cursor to
the new destination for the menu. Press <F3> again to move it, or
press <Esc> and the menu will NOT be moved.
- ADDING A NEW MENU OPTION: Make sure that the correct menu is
selected on the MENUS window. Make sure that the OPTIONS window is
active (right arrow key). Press the <F1> key and an entry screen
will appear, allowing you to fill in the appropriate information
for the new menu option: 1) TITLE is the description of the option,
2) DRIVE is the disk drive that the new option is located on (e.g.
"C"), 3) PATH is the subdirectory that the new option is located in
(e.g. \ for root directory or \DOS for the dos subdirectory), 4)
COMMAND is up to five lines of commands that will be executed to
run the menu option. This can be anything that would normally
appear in a DOS batch file (see the sample menus for examples).
** Important - If the new option will be calling a dos batch file,
make sure that you use the dos "CALL" command to execute it, so
that control can be returned to the menu program after the option
is run. For example, if your new menu option needs to run a batch
file called "SAMPLE.bat", type "CALL SAMPLE.bat" on the command
line, rather than just "SAMPLE.bat".
To exit the option entry screen, either press <Enter> after the
last field, or press the <PgDn> key. If you want to abort any
changes you may have made, press <Esc> instead.
- CHANGING AN EXISTING MENU OPTION: Make sure that the OPTIONS window
is active (right arrow key). Use the up and down arrow keys to
highlight the appropriate option and press <Enter>. If for some
reason, you start editing a menu option and decide you want to go
back to the way it was before you started, press the <Esc> key.
- DELETING AN EXISTING MENU OPTION: Make sure that the OPTIONS window
is active (right arrow key). Use the up and down arrow keys to
highlight the appropriate option and press <F2>. If you really do
want to delete the option, press <F2> again when prompted, otherwise
press <Esc> and the option will NOT be deleted.
- MOVING AN EXISTING MENU OPTION TO A NEW LOCATION: Make sure that the
OPTIONS window is active (right arrow key). Use the up and down
arrow keys to highlight the option to be moved. Press the <F3> key
(the option will appear in reverse video). Use the up and down arrow
keys to move the cursor to the new destination for the option. Press
<F3> again to move it, or press <Esc> and the option will NOT be
moved.
- PROGRAM CONFIGURATION: Press the <F4> key to display the
configuration screen. This will allow you to change the default
colors used, as well as setting the screen saver options.
BACKGROUND colors must be in the range of "0" - "7", while TEXT
colors can be in the range of "0" - "15". If you have an EGA or
VGA monitor, make sure that a "Y" is specified in that field. If
you have a monochrome monitor, specify a "N" instead. The screen
saver TIME-OUT value specifies how long (in minutes) the program
should wait before activating the screen saver program to avoid
screen "burn-in". For example, if you specify a time-out value of
"5", the screen saver will be activated after 5 minutes of
inactivity (no keys pressed). The SPEED value tells the screen
saver how fast to move the objects on the screen once the screen
saver is activated (a lower number means a faster speed).
** Note - the screen saver will only be activated when the MENU
PROGRAM remains idle for the specified time-out value. It is not
a TSR, so will not activate when running other application
programs. This works well for myself, since when my PC is idle,
it is usually sitting at the main menu screen.
To exit the configuration screen, either press <Enter> after the last
field, or press the <PgDn> key. If you want to abort any changes you
may have made, press <Esc> instead.
- EXITING MENU MAINTENANCE MODE: To exit the menu maintenance program,
press the <Esc> key. You will be prompted to specify if you would
like to save the changes you have made. If so, press "Y", otherwise,
press any other key.