
                              Menu Designer

                 Pull-down Menus for Paradox 3.x and 4.0

Menu Designer provides pull-down menus for Paradox 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 applica-
tions.  In Paradox 3.x, menus appear at the top of the screen, and offer
features comparable to Paradox 4.0 menus in standard mode.

When running in Paradox 4.0 standard mode, menus can be displayed in a window.
This means that multiple applications can be placed on the workspace at the
same time--each with its own pull-down menu.  You can use the mouse to pick
menu selections, resize and move menu windows, and close an application.

In Paradox 3.x and 4.0 compatible mode, menus are displayed at the top of the
screen.  Applications can be regenerated at any time to convert libraries
between 3.x and 4.0 formats.  The 4.0 version enables mouse and windowing
functions when it detects standard mode.

Menu Designer provides an easy-to-use development environment.  Selections are
maintained in Paradox tables.  An integrated splash screen designer provides
tools for defining the background pattern and placing text boxes on the splash
screen.  You add "hooks" to an application by placing procedure calls in the
Menu Designer Action table.  A test function lets you test run the application
at any time during development.  Menu reports provide detail and summary-level
application documentation.

An accessory, the DrawMenuBox() procedure, provides up to five additional
levels of popup menu boxes.  By default, you return to the last menu selected
when you finish running application code.  (Developers can override the
default, and return control to any menu level.)

When development is finished, you run "ScWriter", the Menu Designer code
generator.  ScWriter creates PAL source code.  You play the script created
by ScWriter to produce a PAL library file with hard-coded Text/EndText
commands for fast display of the menus.

                           Sample Menu Window:
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   Shipment Invoice History  Maintenance  Commissions  Utilities  Exit  
   Bill for Ŀ                            
   Review List of Pklist Batches  ۰
   Review/Approve a Batch         ۰
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   Invoice a Packlist Batch       ۰
   PĿ      ۰
   R Open New Batch            ۰
   D Edit Existing Batch       ۰
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  ۳ Forward for Approval ۰
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      Revenue Accounting System  ۱
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Menu Designer is written in PAL and is, itself, a Menu Designer application
with a menu-driven system for building applications.  Product features allow
the developer to:

 - add, delete, move and modify selections,
 - customize any of the colors,
 - insert horizontal lines to group menu selections, and
 - design a splash screen with text boxes and a customized background pattern.

You can choose from four styles of borders drawn around menus and text boxes,
including GUI menus with raised borders.

Source code generated by ScWriter can give a novice a head start in writing
structured PAL applications.  This code provides a fully-documented illustra-
tion of the steps needed to convert scripts into procedures.  In fact, if you
start ScWriter with ShowPlay, you can watch ScWriter write PAL code!

Best of all, Menu Designer provides backward compatibility for creating
applications to run under Paradox 3.x.  The installation program detects the
version of Paradox you are using and installs itself to run under that version.
To change versions you simply play Convert.sc and Menu Designer will re-confi-
gure itself to run in that version of Paradox.  This is possible because you
get full source code for Menu Designer and the splash screen generator.  All
.lib files are generated on the development station during installation--and
converted when you play Convert.sc.

Menu Designer 3.0 is priced at $179.95*, and can be ordered directly from:

                     Grass Valley Technologies, Inc.
                      903 Pacific Avenue, Suite 305
                          Santa Cruz, CA  95060

                   Phone: 800-336-8560 or 408-426-6152
                            FAX: 408-426-5276

* Add $5 for shipping & handling--$10 int'l.  CA customers add 8.25% sales tax.

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