Customizable menus

[John Esak]

Okay, if the feature appeared in 5.0, then the reason we were doing this 10
years ago and longer... was I used to use Dave Staubles FL-Menu program
(which I'm sure he still sells.) It absolutely mimics filePro's menu-ing
exactly. But, it has loads of other features, like not pushing an element
off the menu by mistake, and the ability to read in variables, and re-set
the environment of the menu after doing so... it's very cool. But, I stopped
using this just about the time 5.0 came out I guess. I think becuase there
was/is a user license of so many users, and we were exceeding that. The 5.0
ability to read in a variable must have come in just in time for me not to
notice any difference. Dave's menu program has been available for at least
15 years.

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 5:37 PM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Customizable menus
>
>
>
> must be new to 5.0, as i just tested it with 4.8 and didn't work there.
>
> -joe
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:25:37PM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> > 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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