Subj : Custom External Prog Menus
To   : Shane O'Neill
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 24 2021 20:09:05

  Re: Custom External Prog Menus
  By: Shane O'Neill to All on Sat Jul 24 2021 01:56 pm

 > I am trying to make custom menus for my various external
 > programs/games/doors sections and in reviewing "External Programs Menu" on
 > the wiki page I created an ANSI .msg file and .ans file.  I created and
 > saved these files in c:\sbbs\text\menu  and with the file name of
 > "xtrnmenu_games.msg" & "xtrnmenu_games.ans" for my GAMES external program
 > section.  Yet Synchronet still shows the default menu.

The corret filename would be xtrngames.*.

See http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files for details.

 > * I made the .ans version in the event the .MSG does not disply ANSI.

Okay, but it's an extremely rare case where you would need both. I suggest just using one or the other.

 > Do I need to edit my global settings by adding the STRNMENU section to the
 > modopts.ini for these custom menu files to work?

No.

 > If I do this mod will it carry over to future updated versions on Synchronet
 > or do I have to edit this modopts.ini file each time Synchronet is updated?

No files in the ctrl directory are over-written during an update, unless you've
done something weird or wrong in your setup.
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