Subj : Menushell.js
To   : Rampage
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Aug 28 2020 12:36:18

  Re: Menushell.js
  By: Rampage to MRO on Fri Aug 28 2020 08:56 am

 Ra> in my old RA setup, i had menu options that dropped you through other menu
 Ra> files that you never saw any output from but those menu files executed
 Ra> commands that would flip user flags and set security levels and drop you
 Ra> out the other side looking at another menu on screen... just because it is
 Ra> a menu file doesn't mean that it has to display one menu screen and handle
 Ra> the options for it... 

 Ra> the best part about it was the dynamic display generation... there might
 Ra> be three "write mail" options but you only see one because of the access
 Ra> permissions to the others... at some point, more than one of those may be
 Ra> active... instead of drawing a static screen with all three showing, the
 Ra> system would draw a screen with only those available to you on it... 

 Ra> we also had codes we could put in the screens we drew that could execute
 Ra> menu commands so while you are viewing this nice ansi being drawn, your
 Ra> security level is being updated and your access flags set... getting one's
 Ra> head wrapped around it all was not easy but the finished product could be
 Ra> quite seamless... 

Yep, I used to use RA, and you could do some cool stuff with it and its menuing system etc. once you wrapped your head around it.

Nightfox

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