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!ProFiler/Dox/Menus
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| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Archimedes World » archimedes_world_volume_15_issue_1_scp.adf » !ProFiler_ProFiler |
| Filename: | !ProFiler/Dox/Menus |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0849 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
<html><head><title>ProFiler Menus</title></head> <body> <h1><center><u>ProFiler Menus</u></center></h1> <h2><i>Preliminary</i></h2> <i>There is no GUI for defining the order of the functions in the menus yet. To enable some users to do it anyway, this describes the format of the file.</i> <h2>!Menus file</h2> There is a file called '!Menus' in the ProFiler directory. If you want to modify the contents, copy it into Choices:Filer, and modify the copy. <p>The format of the file is simple, but since it will be generated by a program soon, the syntax is fairly strict. Every line is significant, and empty lines are not allowed. <p>See <a href="external">External</a> for information about function IDs. <p>The file consists of lines, each giving the full ID of a function. The presence and sequence of the IDs is the important thing here. If a function is left out of this file, it will be added to the bottom of the relevant menu. This happens to new utilities loaded. The exact places the functions will have are undefined in this case, except functions from a given utility will be kept together. <p>To ensure that a function's place is well defined, you should insert the ID of that function into the file. <h2>Order of functions</h2> The order of the lines in the file defines the order of the functions in the menu. Functions that appear in different parts of the menu tree can have any order in the file, but it is recommended to keep the submenus together for clarity. <p>When a function is inserted into a menu, the following happens: <ol> <li>If it is not in the file, the function is put at the bottom of the menu. <li>If it is the first entry in the file, it is put at the top of the menu, regardless of the existing contents. <li>If one of the IDs above this function is already in the menu, the function is put just below that place. <li>If an ID after this function is in the menu, the function is put just above that place. <li>If no place has been found after this, the function is placed at the end. This usually only happens to the very first function inserted into a menu. </ul> </body></html>
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