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T E L I X R E L E A S E 3 . 0 0
Logitech 3-Button Mouse Menu
Written By Robert F. Rapp
July 03, 1988
Version 1.00
Telix lends itself to mouse support, with its pop-up moving bar
menus and the Lotus-style dialing directory. It has, however,
two areas of weakness: The command help menu, and the lack of
point-and-shoot capabilities in the dialing directory. This menu
provides, in a 4K menu, these capabilities.
The mouse buttons follow the more-or-less accepted standards for
Logitech menus:
Left Enter
Middle Select (menu)
Right Escape
In addition, chords are defines as follows:
Left+Middle Y (for YES)
Right+Middle N (for NO)
Left+Right PgUp or AltS (page up in
dialing directory,
upload otherwise)
All buttons PgDn or AltR (page down in
dialing directory,
download otherwise)
To get the pop-up command menu, click the middle button twice.
The first click will give you the usual help screen/session
timer, the second will load the overlay pop-up menu. It includes
all the commands on the help screen, but simply point and click.
The default is the dialing directory, to speed access. Just
click the left button twice to bring up the short, then the full,
dialing directory.
If the overlay pop-up DOES NOT appear, check your Screen & Color
Configuration. Change the "Page Use" option; try the BIOS method.
That may well work.
When in a session, you can bypass the menu and use the L+R and
ALL chords for up- and down- loading. Just remember, fork up and
fAll down. (Is it apparent I'm an old time WordStar user? We'll
stretch mnemonics beyond belief!)
Now for the dialing directory. You can use the ALL (fAll down)
chord to move down, one page of 15 entries at a time. Likewise,
you can use the L+R (fork up) chord to move up a page of entries.
Note that a page up on page 1 will wrap you around to page 10
(the last page), and a page down chord on page 10 will wrap you
around to page 1. This is a feature not implemented in Telix
from the keyboard.
Telix 3.00 Logitech 3-Button Mouse Menu V. 1.00
Now, press the middle button. You will see a pop-up overlay with
the proper numbers for the page you are on. Pressing the left
button once (actually any button, but once you are out of the
pop-up, the buttons revert to their defined values, and as the
left button is enter, it is good to get in the practice) will put
the entry to be dialed on the dialing line. This works no matter
where the Lotus-style line menu is. (In order to access those
functions, just press the left button BEFORE popping up the
number overlay, pop it up, select the range or whatever, and
press the left button to execute, right to abort. Experiment;
you'll get the hang of it more quickly that way than by reading.)
If that's the only number you want to dial, press the left button
again, and you're off!
If you want to dial a queue, use the middle button, pressing it
to select, then again to popup the overlay, then move and select
again, until you have the queue you want. Then just press the
left button, and Telix will start dialing the queue.
You will notice a "-" precedes all selected entries. This is to
provide another feature not built into Telix, a default prefix.
If you have one you use all the time, like *70W or 1170W for
disable call waiting, define the prefix "-". It is ignored in
all the other functions, like edit, delete, and the like, and if
it is undefined, it does not affect dialing at all. If I could
figure out how to use all four as selected defaults, I would, but
one is better than none.
The other mouse chords give you one last chance to abort an exit,
without making you use the keyboard right after your hand is on
the mouse. These are the L+M Y (yes) and R+M N (no) functions.
Color note: If you use color, and close to the "default" colors
for Telix, replace the BOLD statements in the TELIX.DEF file with
the number 3. This gives you nice cyan pop-ups with red-on-white
moving bars. After saving the changes, type (assuming the mouse
subdirectory is in your path) NEWMENU TELIX, and you are done.
You can also add Telix to CLICK.SRC with the line:
Telix menu ;Telix 3.00
After saving that, issue the command NEWCLICK and you are all
set!!!
Note that if you run a mouse menu equipped editor, or Hotkey, the
other program's mouse driver will wipe out this one. Not a big
problem with Telix; the Alt-V DOS command option can be used to
call up the Telix menu again, with the command MENU TELIX.
Again, this only works really well if the mouse stuff is in your
path.
Telix 3.00 Logitech 3-Button Mouse Menu V. 1.00
NOTE WELL:
Because of the change in the way Telix does directories (as large
as needed), the checking involved in the mouse support for the
dialing directory overlays WILL NOT WORK unless you do the
following:
Use the Add blank entry feature to pad your directory to 150
entries, NO MORE and NO LESS. The menu will work unmodified then.
If you have more, add to the TELIX.DEF file in pages of 15
entries, and pad your directory with the Add blank option to a
multiple of 15. Then use NEWMENU as above, and all will work.
Remember to add the labels for the added numbers as well!!
Any comments, etc., direct to Rob Rapp, Exec-PC, (414) 964-5160,
1200/2400 baud, 8N1. Please credit me if you adapt. No
particular reason - it's just nice.
Enjoy.
++++ROB++++