Hello Victor.
23 Dec 97 23:20, Victor Kemp wrote to All:
 VK> Hi all, is there a way to stop maximus clearing the screen whenever
 VK> you change menus? It seems like a really dumb thing to do when you can
 VK> easily put a [cls] in somewhere if you need it. I need to stop it
 VK> doing that because I'm trying to make simulated drop down menus and
 VK> they'd look silly if they cleared the screen whenever you tried to
 VK> drop one down. Is there an easy way to make drop-down menus? like a
 VK> mex program someone's written?
I did a simular thing but not in Max since I couldn't figure out how to do it 
in Mex.  What I did is use the OpenDoors package to write the windows for 
each of the menus and load the programs in the appropriate Maximus CTL file 
(e.g. menus.ctl).  The menus use the arrow keys to highlight choices and then 
hit enter to start the option.  You can have popup windows, whatever you 
want, using this method.  The really cool thing about this is you can hide 
the cursor in the highlighted option so that there appears to be no cursor 
and the whole thing looks really professional (i.e. like a canned program).  
Two of the drawbacks are that it slows things down a tad but the professional 
look is worth it, and you have to be able to program in C.
Maurice
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