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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sub menu's Post 13296 by Makaveli.2003 on Tuesday 15th of January 2002 11:29:56 AM
Old 01-15-2002
This is my menu script so far:
!/bin/ksh

amenu () {

clear
echo `date`
echo
echo "\t\t\tMy Personal Menu"
echo
echo "\t\tPlease Select:"
echo
echo "\t\t\t 1. Directory display"
echo "\t\t\t 2. Current Activity"
echo "\t\t\t 3. Who is logged on"
echo "\t\t\t 4. File functions"
echo "\t\t\t 5. Directory functions"
echo "\t\t\t 0. Exit"
echo Select by pressing a number and then ENTER ;
}

PressEnter () {
echo Press Enter
read x
}


DirectoryDisplay () {
ls -l|more
PressEnter
}

CurrentActivity () {
ps -ef|more
PressEnter
}

WhoIsLoggedOn () {
who|more
PressEnter
}

Filefunctions () {
?????????????????????????????
PressEnter
}

Directoryfunctions () {
?????????????????????????????
PressEnter
}

while true
do

amenu

read answer

case $answer in
1) DirectoryDisplay ;;
2) CurrentActivity ;;
3) WhoIsLoggedOn ;;
4) Filefunctions ;;
5) Directoryfunctions ;;

0) break ;;
esac

done
clear

-----

Jimbo, how would I go about adding to my script so that it to do this: I for example choose option 4 and I would like it to take me to a whole new page (well, clear the screen) then allow me to choose from 5/6 options, which are functional. Dunno if that is clear but, ill give u an example:

Usual menu appears with 6 options e.g.

1. -
2. -
3. -
4. File functions
5. Directory functions
6. -

And say I choose option 4, I would like it to clear the screen and take me to a new sub-menu e.g.

1. Delete
2. Copy
3. Remove
etc ^^the above functions need to be functional

Can ne1 help????
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

menu_items

MENU_ITEMS(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     MENU_ITEMS(3)

NAME

     item_count, menu_items, set_menu_items -- attach items to menus or check correspondences

LIBRARY

     Curses Menu Library (libmenu, -lmenu)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <menu.h>

     int
     item_count(MENU *menu);

     ITEMS **
     menu_items(MENU *menu);

     int
     set_menu_items(MENU *menu, ITEM **items);

DESCRIPTION

     The item_count() menu function returns the number of items currently attached to the menu passed.	The menu_items() function returns a
     pointer to an array of item pointers that represent the menu items currently attached to the given menu.  Apart from using new_menu() (see
     menu_new(3)) menu items may be attached to a menu by calling set_menu_items() any items currently attached to the menu will be detached and
     the NULL terminated array of new items will be attached to the menu.

RETURN VALUES

     Any function returning a string pointer will return NULL if an error occurs.  Functions returning an integer will return one of the follow-
     ing:

     E_OK	  The function was successful.
     E_POSTED	  The menu is already posted.
     E_CONNECTED  An item was already connected to a menu.

SEE ALSO

     curses(3), menus(3)

NOTES

     The header <menu.h> automatically includes both <curses.h> and <eti.h>.

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