Re: A86: menus
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Re: A86: menus
In a message dated 10/24/99 13:12:48 Eastern Daylight Time,
croop@oregontrail.net writes:
> OK, the rom's menu routines are making me quite mad. I'm trying to make
> a menu bar like that which is produced by the BASIC command 'menu()'.
> This menu bar is just like TI-OS menus, except you cannot clear it away
> by simply pressing 'exit', and you can't do anything until you press one
> of the F keys.
>
> I made a little program to test out the menu info I found at Dux's
> site. It made the menu just fine. But this menu is a TI-OS menu. Once
> invoked, it executes entirely separate of my program, and waits for the
> program to end before it even lets the user make selections. And a
> press of the exit key terminates it.
>
> Is there any way (well, if the BASIC interpreter does it, there MUST be)
> to invoke a BASIC menu instead of a TI-OS menu? I don't want the user
> to be able to press exit; I want everything to stop until the user
> makes a selection, and then the program continues.
Just manually draw a menu-like interface at the bottom of the screen. Lots
of programs do this (just look at all the shells). Then you can just call
_get_key and check for K_F1, K_F2, etc.
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