filePro 5.6 Comes With BONUS Program

[Bob Stockler]

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This was posted simply as a "Heads Up" to filePro 5.6 owners
so they'd know they had a powerful filePro User Menu managing
program on their systems (as hidden as it might be).

Bob

Bob Stockler wrote (on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:20:32PM -0400):

| 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:
| ---------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------
| #!/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
| ---------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------
| 
| Bob
| 
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