[misterhouse-users] RE: MENUS item on IA5 interface

[bazyle b. <baz...@nt...>]

>what am I supposed to see when I click menus on the ia5 interface top =
row of=20
buttons?
Answer: one button leading to loads of buttons.
You need to find the file 'menu.pl'  and move it to your code directory. =
( I can't remember where I found it, from other posts it seems to be in =
'Bruce' initially)
Then you find 'test.menu' and move that to the code directory too. This =
is just a sample one and although it is really data it still goes in the =
code directory.
Now when you reload and get to the web menu button you see as you 'mouse =
over' it is calling up the program menu.pl
The first thing menu.pl does is create its own mh.menu file ( in code =
directory) which has every command in it ( dead clever).
You should then get a web page with a button called 'top'.
click that and you get some more buttons; this set of buttons is defined =
inside the menu.pl code. The 'default' button actually leads to the info =
in your 'test.menu'  file, and the button called 'test' would lead to a =
file 'test2.menu'  if you had one but as you haven't got one it's just =
blank. ( this is cunningly designed to confuse the beginner).
The button 'mh' leads to all that automatically created stuff in =
'mh.menu' and its first set of sub-buttons you should recognise as the =
"# Category =3D xxx" at the top of each of your code files (clever stuff =
this).
Finally the button 'main' would pick up a file called 'main.menu' of =
which there is a sample which is Bruce's personal arrangement of =
commands. You will eventually be able to make your own version of called =
'main.menu' for your own requirements as explained in the docs.


Suggestion:
In case the clever people read this far.
Could we have an option for inserting a number into each button linked =
somehow to the infrared remote input so that by routing the PC screen to =
the domestic TV and somehow calling up the menu, one could surf the mh =
commands from the couch during the adverts.
Baz