Can we add a help line/extended description for menu options? Maybe something like "MENU LABEL HELP text" with the text could be displayed below the menu. Thanks, Keith
K Schincke wrote:> Can we add a help line/extended description for menu options? > > Maybe something like "MENU LABEL HELP text" with the text could be > displayed below the menu. >This is a good idea. I think it probably needs to be able to handle more than one line, however, so something more like: @HELP Text More text @END ... might be a better syntax (I want to avoid using the keyword MENU, since core syslinux treats that as an end-of-line comment. This would have to be something that has a block end terminator. Suggestions for syntax would be appreciated.) -hpa
El Martes, 26 de Septiembre de 2006 00:14, H. Peter Anvin escribi?:> K Schincke wrote: > > Can we add a help line/extended description for menu options? > > > > Maybe something like "MENU LABEL HELP text" with the text could be > > displayed below the menu. > > This is a good idea. I think it probably needs to be able to handle > more than one line, however, so something more like: > > @HELP > Text > More text > @END > > ... might be a better syntax (I want to avoid using the keyword MENU, > since core syslinux treats that as an end-of-line comment. This would > have to be something that has a block end terminator. Suggestions for > syntax would be appreciated.)What about an include file, like messages with F1 F2 F3 on standard text menu. :) -- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com
Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote:> What about an include file, like messages with F1 F2 F3 on standard text menu.Well, this could be a very large number of files. Downloading a very large number of files via TFTP could be slow. -hpa
How about two help options?
1) short multi-line help descriptions included in the config file
2) longer help files included on the boot CD or downloaded.
This would allow users to use help files with the knowledge that they
would have to be downloaded in a PXE environment.
The admin would weigh off download speed with the amount of text wanted.
Keith
H. Peter Anvin wrote:> Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote:
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>> What about an include file, like messages with F1 F2 F3 on standard
text menu.
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> Well, this could be a very large number of files. Downloading a very
> large number of files via TFTP could be slow.
>
> -hpa
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Keith Schincke wrote:> How about two help options? > 1) short multi-line help descriptions included in the config file > 2) longer help files included on the boot CD or downloaded. > > This would allow users to use help files with the knowledge that they > would have to be downloaded in a PXE environment. > The admin would weigh off download speed with the amount of text wanted. >Of course, thinking about it, it might not be so bad to request the files on demand as opposed to all at once. On the other hand, do the admins really want to have a scattered file for every single option? -hpa
Keith Schincke wrote:> How about two help options? > 1) short multi-line help descriptions included in the config file > 2) longer help files included on the boot CD or downloaded. > > This would allow users to use help files with the knowledge that they > would have to be downloaded in a PXE environment. > The admin would weigh off download speed with the amount of text wanted.I figured multiline inline text would solve both problems. -hpa
Ryan McLean wrote:> Appoligies for the amount of posts in one go earlier but i seem to keep > getting caught in your filter and i thought it was notes so i tried > thunderbird and it still stuck. > > Anyhow I like the Text Endtext syntax, but could i ask that again we have > this help text in a seperate file and include with MENU HELP <pathToHelp> > > I know i seem anal about keeping things in seperate files and to be honest > i am a bit i hate my menu files gettting cluttered with options and > labels. > > I think that the afore mentioned include would again be of the same > benifit as seperating out the gfx cfg file. > > Would it also be possible to tie text to the menu labels? > eg > > LABEL latest > MENU LABEL ^Latest Release > KERNEL knl/vmlinuz-rhws44-x86 > APPEND initrd=img/initrd-rhws44-x86.img > > > > @DESC latest > This is the latest Release of XXXX. Choose to install. > @END >Well, at least I was talking about help text per menu labels... -hpa
Per menu item help was what I was thinking of too. Since these are usually short descriptions they could fall under the label block The F1->Fn type of menu help like syslinux/isolinux has would be good too. These would be larger help files that could be opened/displayed when the user hits the configured key. Keith H. Peter Anvin wrote:> Ryan McLean wrote: > >> Appoligies for the amount of posts in one go earlier but i seem to keep >> getting caught in your filter and i thought it was notes so i tried >> thunderbird and it still stuck. >> >> Anyhow I like the Text Endtext syntax, but could i ask that again we have >> this help text in a seperate file and include with MENU HELP <pathToHelp> >> >> I know i seem anal about keeping things in seperate files and to be honest >> i am a bit i hate my menu files gettting cluttered with options and >> labels. >> >> I think that the afore mentioned include would again be of the same >> benifit as seperating out the gfx cfg file. >> >> Would it also be possible to tie text to the menu labels? >> eg >> >> LABEL latest >> MENU LABEL ^Latest Release >> KERNEL knl/vmlinuz-rhws44-x86 >> APPEND initrd=img/initrd-rhws44-x86.img >> >> >> >> @DESC latest >> This is the latest Release of XXXX. Choose to install. >> @END >> >> > > Well, at least I was talking about help text per menu labels... > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > > >