Subj : Re: Menushell.js
To   : Gamgee
From : Tracker1
Date : Mon Aug 24 2020 03:03 pm

On 8/24/2020 7:29 AM, Gamgee wrote:
>
> You don't need a menu editor to have custom menus.  I know
> virtually nothing about either JS or Baja, and pretty much every
> single menu / disply file on my system is custom.  Make an ANSI
> menu with something like TheDraw (or Moebius or Pablodraw), and
> then convert it (with the utilities included with SBBS) into an
> ASC or MSG file.  Done.
>
> Also, I have made some fairly minor changes to the default.src
> menu shell file, and recompiled it with Baja.  Extremely simple to
> do (instructions on the Wiki), and no programming skill required.
> It's just a text file and it's very obvious how to edit it for
> minor changes.
>
> Get out of the box and learn something.

Depending on the source ansi, I tend to favor a separate (simpler) file
for .asc/msg menu displays.

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Michael J. Ryan
tracker1 +o Roughneck BBS

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