Professional Menu System v1.6





                               Professional Menu System v1.6



  I. INTRODUCTION

     Thank you for trying my menu program.  I was thinking about writing a

program like this for awhile now so I decided to give it my best shot.  It

is basically the same concept of Windows 3.x Program Manager, etc...  I

took much care in designing it because I wanted it to do as much as

possable but also be easy to use, small, and efficient.

 

 II. HOW TO USE

     The program should be pretty self explanitory but here is a brief

overview.  The main program file is "PMS()" and should be in your "PMS"

Path.  After running it you will be presented with two menus.  The top one

is a list of program groups (they have nothing to do with the different

paths).  At the bottom of this list is "Add New Group" so you can add a

group to the list (Note:  When you select "Add New Group" it doesn't matter

what the bottom menu says).  The Bottom menu is what action you want to

preform on the currently selected group - You can switch to a new group,

edit a group title, or delete a group.  

     After you switch to a group you are then presented with two more menus

(Press "ESC" to go back to the previous menu).  The top menu is the list of

programs in the current group and the bottom is the action you want to

preform on the selected program.  The program list is basically the same as

the group list.  There actions you can preform are as follows:  You can run

a program, view a detailed program information screen, edit the

information, move a program to a different path, delete a program from the

current group, and uninstall a program which removes it from the current

group and also deletes it from your calculator.



III. AUTO-INSTALL FEATURE

     There is an auto-install feature that will let programmers have their

programs added to my menu automatically (you only have to select the

destination group).  The setup file is named "PMS\PMSETUP1" and I chose

this name so you would be able to copy more than one program over at once

by just changing the number 1 to a number from 1 to 9 (there can be numbers

missing inbetween).

     This setup file is a matrix that has 10 columns and as many rows as

you need.  THERE CAN NOT BE ANY EXTRA COLUMNS OR ROWS.  The first row of

the matrix must contain the following information ["PRGM", path, program(),

program title, program version, date completed, programmer, E-mail address,

www site, ftp site].  All the following lines contain the names of the

programs that are neccessary for the program to function (You don't need to

put the main program name that is in the first row in any of the other

rows).  ANY MATRIX CELLS THAT ARE TO BE BLANK MUST NOT CONTAIN A ZERO!

THEY SHOULD CONTAIN TWO DOUBLE QUOTES WHICH IS A NULL-STRING.  Here is a

sample matrix for my Blackjack program,

[["PRGM","GAMES","BJACK()","Blackjack","1.8","4/10/96","Jeff Altman",

"AltmanJC@Westminster.edu","http://www.nrv.net/~monty/",""]["DECK",

"DRAWCARD","EDITCARD","","","","","","",""]]

     When a program is moved then all the files that are included in here

are moved to the new directory.  It makes it easy when you have more than

one program in a directory and there are a  lot of files to keep track of.

When a program is uninstalled then all these files are removed from your

calculator.



 IV. PROGRAM FILES

     The group file (PMS??.92G) containes 2 neccessary program-related

files, they are PMS (Program) and QUIT (Program).  You can delete any of

the other files, print them out, or whatever.

 

  V. CONTENTS OF PMS??.92G

     *PMS.92P      - The Main Program

     *QUIT.92P     - A Program Add-on

 

 VI. UPGRADES

     To upgrade just delete all the current PMS files and install the new

version.







                           Altman's Programs & Stuff - 4/15/96



  I. INTRODUCTION

     Thank you for trying my programs.  I hope you find them useful, easy

to use, fun, fast, and efficient.  I know I'm not the best programmer in

the world but I am always trying to improve.  I beleve that a program can

always be improved upon in some way and they are never truly finished.  If

you have any suggestions, notice any bugs, or have any ideas please E-mail

me because I would really like to hear from you.  I have been programming

in various versions of basic for a few years and enjoy programming very

much...  I really like trying to improve programs.



 II. Available Programs

     FILE          COMPLETED  TITLE

     BJACK18.92G   04/10/96   Blackjack v1.8

     CALGEN11.92G  04/09/96   Calendar Generator v1.1

     GETKEY10.92G  04/09/96   getKey Key Codes v1.0

     HILOW10.92G   04/09/96   High-Low Guessing Game v1.0

     PMS16.92G     04/15/96   Professional Menu System v1.6

     TRIANG03.92G  04/10/96   Triangle Wizard v0.3



III. UPDATES, PROBLEMS, IDEAS

     I am always trying to improve my programs so please give me any

suggestions if you have any.  I don't have a WWW page so if you would post

this program on your TI-92 WWW page or ftp site for me I would really

appreciate it (please notify me so I can keep you up to date).  Just send

me the http or ftp address that it will be on so I can add it to the

following list.



     You can currently get my programs from the following places...

       http://www.nrv.net/~monty/