Customizable menus

[John Esak]

Hi Joe,
This isn't new. We have been putting variable names in our menus for as long
as I can rmember... and in fact, I believe we've been doing it since before
5.0, as well.  In any case, the title holds far more than 8 characters... We
have things like "NPI Management Menu - Mangers" and "Nexwest Mgt. Menu -
Supervisors".

But, I think your idea is far more flexible...

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Joe Chasan
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 5:15 PM
> To: Jeff Harrison
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Customizable menus
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:10:04PM -0800, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> > --- William Randall <wrandall at fptech.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
> > > To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:42 PM
> > > Subject: Customizable menus
> > >
> > >
> > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Here is the menu script, more or less, that I am
> > > > running to do this currently:
> > > >
> > > > umask 000
> > > > COMPANY="SEA_LLC.."; export COMPANY
> > > >
> > > > PFQUAL=bem; export PFQUAL
> > > > sed "s/%.......%/${COMPANY}/"
> > > > <$PFDIR/filepro/menuorig/menuname
> > > >$PFMENU/menuname
> > > >
> > >
> > > You can add $COMPANY to the heading or version field
> > > of any filePro 5.0 menu
> > > and it resolve the value.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Bill.  That will work.
> >
> > Of course there are only 8 characters available there,
> > and I like to put the menu name there... grumble
> > grumble :-)  Anyway, that is much better than the
> > alternative.  Thanks!
>
> Since I had never heard of this new feature (THANKS BILL), my cheat
> always as been to set PFNAME to some string - it then appears on top
> right corner - works well if all your menu command lines have
> valid filepro filenames as arguments.  you can then keep your menu
> names, versions, dates, or whatever you put into that field.
>
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> -Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
> joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
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