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File Based Menu System

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This is the easiest to use menu system ever written. It is file based, meaning all the menu options are stored in a physical file of your choice. Nothing to compile, nothing to go wrong.

To access this menu, with Protools in the library list, type menu on the command line.

From this menu you can easily perform all the functions necessary to create and maintain all your menus.

Option 1 - Create Menu - Brings up the screen below

Fill in the name of the new menu and press <Enter>

To create a menu, just follow these steps.

In addition, authority can be added to each option. Position the cursor on an option and press <F9> to edit option authority.

Option 2 - Change Menu - Brings up a screen to enter an existing menu. Follow above steps to change the menu.

Option 3 - Execute Menu - Brings up a screen to enter a menu name. A Menu may also be accessed with the command menu, followed by an existing menu name.

Option 4 - Execute CL Source Member - This option is on the FBM System Menu because it is part of the FBM System. This is the way Multiple Commands are executed when pressing an <F9> from the "Menu Option Command Entry" Screen. When <F9> is pressed, a member is dynamically created in QMNUCL and the command EXECLSRC *LIBL/QMNUCL MBR??????? is built, which is then executed when the menu option is selected.

Option 6 - Executes a menu in single column mode.

Options 80,81,82,90 - Self explanatory.

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