Re: A86: menus


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Re: A86: menus




Er, context state?  What's that?  Something that tells the same routine
to do different things in different situations?



Joshua J Seagoe wrote:
> 
> in order to something like that with the built in menu routines, you'd
> probly have set up your own context state, which i don't think anyone
> outside of ti knows how to do yet.
> 
> -josh
> 
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:09:56 -0700 Cassady Roop <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.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Cassady Roop
> >ti86prgm.freeservers.com
> >
> 
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