Mailing List Archive: Help text at bottom screen for selected option

Help text at bottom screen for selected option

Oct 2, 2007, 12:54 AM

Post #1 of 3 (2443 views)

Hi,

I vaguely remember this feature being requested before but i cant
remember/see if it was ever implemented.

Basically what i want is for the option the user has currently selected to
display help text at the bottom of the screen..

| -----------------------------------------|
| option 1 |
| option 2 |
| |
| |
| You have selected option 1 |
|________________________|

In the cfg files it should look like the following

LABEL MainMenu
MENU DEFAULT
MENU LABEL ^Main Menu
MENU DESC Will return you to the main menu.
KERNEL vesamenu.c32

The reason I am requesting this is that I intend to server Firmware
updates via PXE for some of my servers, However I need to be able to
easily and clearly tell which is which and also what each applies to
(which may be several different servers).

Regards,

Ryan McLean
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Re: Help text at bottom screen for selected option [ In reply to ]

tomas at slax

Oct 2, 2007, 2:02 AM

Post #2 of 3 (2301 views)

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Ryan McLean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I vaguely remember this feature being requested before but i cant
> remember/see if it was ever implemented.
>
> Basically what i want is for the option the user has currently selected to
> display help text at the bottom of the screen..
>
> | -----------------------------------------|
> | option 1 |
> | option 2 |
> | |
> | |
> | You have selected option 1 |
> |________________________|
>
> In the cfg files it should look like the following

I think you can simply use
TEXT HELP
your help message goes here
ENDTEXT

Tomas M

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Re: Help text at bottom screen for selected option [ In reply to ]

ryanm at accelrys

Oct 2, 2007, 2:31 AM

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HI,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Regards,

Ryan McLean
Systems Administrator
Email: ryanm@accelrys.com
Tel: +44 1223 228632
Ext: 8632
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