filePro 5.6 Comes With BONUS Program

[Bob Stockler]

There's now an added BONUS distributed with filePro 5.6 . . .

  MENU EDIT II - The best filePro User Menu Creation/Editing Program.

I formerly sold it for $49.95, but it's now included in all
versions of filePro 5.6 at no extra cost.  You'll find it in
~/fp/fputil/filepro/me2 and you can copy it from there to your
regular ~/filepro directory for convenience.

It's based on a filePro input processing table the owner can
edit to modify how it works or what it does.  It presents Menu
Elements on emulated IUA screens as though they're records in a
filePro File (they may be browsed as well).  Menu Elements are
selected from a screen emulating the menu being created/edited
or from the Browse Screen.  It adds two fields to the Menu Title
screen: a 60 character Remarks field and a mm/dd/yyyy formatted
Updated field showing the date the menu was last saved using ME2.

It's most often used features are on a menu:
                                                                            
  Select a Menu Element (enter 1-24).                                    
  [T] - Select the Title-Version-Remarks Element.                        
  [B] - Browse Menu Elements (Choice, Description & Action on 1 line).   
  [S] - Swap two Menu Elements (Re-arrange the Menu).                    
  [K] - Copy a Menu Element to an Empty Menu Element.                    
  [R] - Run:  Have filePro execute this Menu.                            
  [C] - Change PFMENU to be a Different Directory.                       
  [M] - Manage Shell Scripts.    [D] - Document this Menu.               
  [P] - Assign a Menu Password.  [H] - Helpful Utilities.                
  [Q] - Quit Immediately (the Menu will NOT be Saved).                   
  [X] - Exit (prompted to Save if edited, then to Edit another Menu).    
                                                                            
The "Helpful Utilities" allow one to Copy or Rename a User Menu
or get (a little) help in writing User Menu Help Files.  "Manage
Shell Scipts" allows one to Edit, Rename, Delete or Execute any
scripts named "MenuName.-?", and points out as "Orphans" any that
are not executed by an Action Command Line in the menu.

You may want to change some of the defaults at the top of the
processing table "me2".

On the filePro Plus Main Menu I've edited choice "6 - Define User
Menus" to execute this script:
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#!/bin/sh
while :
do clear ; echo "
                   Use Which Menu Creation/Editing Program ?\n
                       1 - filePro's dmakemenu\n
                       2 - MENU EDIT II\n
                   Your Choice: \c"
   read choice junk
   case $choice in [12]) break ;; esac
done
case $choice in
  1) $PFPROG/fp/dmakemenu ;;
  2) $PFPROG/fp/dclerk me2 -sme2 -y '' -z me2 -d ;;
esac
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Bob

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