Creating menus for ProBoard is extremely easy using the built-in Menu Editor.

When you select the “Menu Editor” option in PROCFG's main menu, a new window is opened containing the defined languages. ProBoard allows you to have a language specific set of menus for each language you define. Refer to the “Language Editor” portion of the manual for more information on specifying paths for your language specific menus. If no path is given, the default menu path defined in PROCFG, (F1) Options, Paths, Menus is used.

Once you have selected the language whose menus you want to edit, a second window is opened displaying the menu names that are available to edit. A menu must already exist to be displayed in this window.

You can type the first few letters of a menu name to jump to that menu in the choice list, or use the cursor keys to position on the menu that you want to edit. Then press <ENTER> to invoke the menu editor.

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1. Up/Down Scroll up/down through existing menus.
2. Enter Select an existing menu to edit.
3. Insert Add a new menu.

Once you have selected a menu, you will notice the name of the menu you are editing is displayed on the top line of the Menu Editor and a line-by-line list of the items on the selected menu is displayed.

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To add a menu item, press <Ins>, to remove a menu item, press <Del>. Your menus can contain up to 255 menu items for each menu.

To edit a menu item, move the selector to that item and press <Enter>. You can change the menu prompt and highlight colors, or specify a RIP menu to be displayed to your users by pressing <Alt-P>. If you want to see how a menu will look to your users (ASCII/ANSI), press <Alt-S>. You can also copy and paste menu items. To copy an item, move to the item you want to copy, and press <Alt-C>. To insert the copied item somewhere else, move to the place where you want the menu item, and press <Ctrl-P>. You can even copy and paste items across different menus.

Hot Tip! ──────── You can press <Alt-M> while logged on locally and a menu is displayed, or when a user is logged on and sitting on a menu. This launches the menu editor with the current menu loaded so you can edit it. You will need to tell ProBoard which language you want the menu loaded for. This makes it very easy to correct/add items to a menu you are viewing on the screen, while it is still fresh in your mind.

Basically, each line of your menus that your users will see contains the following attributes.

Text Line ………………. Text line to be displayed to the user.

Color ………………….. Color of this menu item. Press <ENTER> to

                            edit the color for this menu item.

HotKey …………………. The key the user is to press to activate

                            this menu option.

Function ……………….. Menu Function to be executed. Press

                            <ENTER> to display and select from a list
                            of all ProBoard Menu Functions.

Data …………………… Data associated with this menu item. Refer

                            to the "Menu Functions" section of this
                            chapter for more info on Data Items that
                            you can use or that may be needed with some
                            Menu Functions.

Minimum Level …………… Minimum security level a user needs to

                            access this menu item.

Maximum Level …………… Maximum security level a user can have to

                            access this menu item.

Flags ………………….. The flags that the user needs in their user

                            record to access this menu item.  Press
                            <Enter> when on this field to invoke the
                            menu flag editor.  Simply press the
                            character (A-Z or 1-6) to toggle the flags.
                            While you are in the menu flag editor you
                            can press <F1> to view/modify notes about
                            what your flags are used for.  You can also
                            specify flags that a user MUST NOT have in
                            order to access this menu item.  These
                            flags are shown in reverse.  To set a
                            reverse flag, press the flag letter twice

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                            (it will appear reversed).  To clear a
                            reversed flag type the flag letter one more
                            time.

Minimum Age …………….. The minimum age a user has to be in order

                            to access this menu item.  Set this to "0"
                            to disable age checking.

Maximum Age …………….. The oldest age that a user can be to access

                            this menu option.

Sex ……………………. The sex the user must be to access this

                            menu function.  Set this to "Don't Care" to
                            allow users of either sex to use this menu
                            option.

Time Left ………………. The minimum amount of time a user must have

                            in order to use this menu function.  Great
                            for doors that don't check a users
                            remaining time, etc.

Time Online …………….. The amount of time a user must be online

                            before they are allowed to select this menu
                            option.

Time Frame ……………… The hours during which users can select

                            this menu item.  Default is "fully enabled"
                            meaning that this menu item is available
                            at all times during a 24 hour period.
                            Press <Enter> to bring froward a window
                            that will allow you to select times for
                            this menu item to be accessed.  Times are
                            in 1/2 hour increments, based on a 24 hour
                            format.

Minimum Speed …………… Minimum baud rate at which user must be

                            connected in order to see this menu item.

Maximum Speed …………… Maximum baud rate at which this menu item

                            will be displayed.  Great for suggesting
                            users with 300 baud modems buy a faster
                            modem  :-)

Nodes ………………….. Determines on what nodes this menu item

                            will be available.  Press [Enter] to
                            change.

Password required ……….. If enabled, a password is required to

                            execute this menu item (see next item)

Password ……………….. Password required to executed this menu

                            item (if enabled).  The password is not
                            case sensitive.

RIP Options ─────────── Show Remote …………….. If set to “Yes” then menu item or A?? file

                            will be sent to remote.  The default value
                            for this setting is "No".

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Show Local ……………… If set to “Yes”, when the RIP sequence is

                            sent to the user, the SysOp will see this
                            as a normal ANSI menu-line or ANSI file.
                            The default value for this setting is "Yes"

Reset Screen ……………. If set to “Yes”, ProBoard will reset

                            (clear) the RIP windows before executing
                            this menu function.