Syslinux - Oct 2007 - extlinux graphical menu with function keys

# Hi all,
#
# I have a question regarding the syslinux menu as used on the Ubuntu,
# Sabayon, ... live CD's.
# According to the syslinux documentation the function keys can be used
# to display a help file, but in the menu of these live distros the
# function keys are used to pick the resolution, language and keyboard.
#
# I would like to bind a submenu to these function keys. Is this
# possible and how can this be accomplished?
# Or if anybody knows a place where this topic is documented, please let
# me know.
#
# Any help would be greatly appreciated.

As it happens, I just finished a (hopefully less crufty) patch
to accomplish exactly what you're after.  It's not quite as
"pretty"
on the screen as SuSE's stuff, but it's much "prettier" code
and
HUGELY easier to use.  (I wasted several hours trying to make SuSE's
stuff work on my live-CD...)

http://www.valleyhold.org/~gordons/syslinux-optmenus.diff

The message I sent about it should be hitting the list archive soon,
and the patch also updates README.menu with the new keywords.

HTH, let me know if this works for you!

Gordon Schumacher wrote:
> 
> As it happens, I just finished a (hopefully less crufty) patch
> to accomplish exactly what you're after.  It's not quite as
"pretty"
> on the screen as SuSE's stuff, but it's much "prettier"
code and
> HUGELY easier to use.  (I wasted several hours trying to make SuSE's
> stuff work on my live-CD...)
> 
> http://www.valleyhold.org/~gordons/syslinux-optmenus.diff
> 
> The message I sent about it should be hitting the list archive soon,
> and the patch also updates README.menu with the new keywords.
> 
> HTH, let me know if this works for you!
> 
Hi Gordon,

I just looked at your patch to review it for integration.  Unfortunately 
it seems to have seriously gotten stale.

Furthermore, I'd rather not introduce new core keywords if at all 
possible (OPTMENU, OPTMENUS).  Any sane syntax to use them with the MENU 
leading keyword?  If not, can we stick to a single keyword (perhaps 
OPTMENU ENABLE F1...?)  If it doesn't make sense, then oh well, but...

Other than that, I really like the code, it's pretty clean and fits 
nicely in the framework already established, so I'd like to try it out. 
  Any chance I could get you to refresh this patch against 3.60-pre4 (or 
the "adv" branch in the git tree?)

	-hpa