Syslinux - Aug 2008 - About "MENU TITLE" and possible hotkey handling

3.71, using isolinux and simple menu system menu.c32

To avoid having many different menu config files (one for each submenu) I'm
trying switching from the once required syntax
===MENU LABEL > ^Firmware/BIOS
        KERNEL menu.c32
        APPEND menufw.cfg
===to
===MENU BEGIN
	MENU TITLE ^Firmware/BIOS

	<stuff that was inside menufw.cfg>
MENU END 
===
However, it's not clear to me how the "^F" hotkey is handled, if
it is at
all.

Reading doc/menu.txt it would seem hotkey is only handled in "MENU
LABEL";
however, when I use the above syntax the "^"char is stripped from the
string
when displayed in the main menu (submenu title entry in main menu screen),
where I see
	Firmware/BIOS   (^ stripped, but no hotkey available)
while it's printed in the title of the submenu screen, where I see
	^Firmware/BIOS

The stripping of the "^" char makes my wonder whether there's a
way, maybe
undocumented, to use hotkey in "MENU TITLE" too; is there a way?

Thanks
-- 
giulioo at pobox.com

Giulio Orsero wrote:
> 3.71, using isolinux and simple menu system menu.c32
> 
> To avoid having many different menu config files (one for each submenu)
I'm
> trying switching from the once required syntax
> ===> MENU LABEL > ^Firmware/BIOS
>         KERNEL menu.c32
>         APPEND menufw.cfg
> ===> to
> ===> MENU BEGIN
> 	MENU TITLE ^Firmware/BIOS
> 
> 	<stuff that was inside menufw.cfg>
> MENU END 
> ===> 
> However, it's not clear to me how the "^F" hotkey is handled,
if it is at
> all.
> 
> Reading doc/menu.txt it would seem hotkey is only handled in "MENU
LABEL";
> however, when I use the above syntax the "^"char is stripped from
the string
> when displayed in the main menu (submenu title entry in main menu screen),
> where I see
> 	Firmware/BIOS   (^ stripped, but no hotkey available)
> while it's printed in the title of the submenu screen, where I see
> 	^Firmware/BIOS
> 
> The stripping of the "^" char makes my wonder whether there's
a way, maybe
> undocumented, to use hotkey in "MENU TITLE" too; is there a way?
> 
Sounds like a bug to me.  Try changing "MENU TITLE" to "MENU
LABEL" and
see what happens.

	-hpa