feature request: description for menu entry External links Options

[mr_]

Ultimate Boot CD is using isolinux for their menu. isolinux seams to have a nice optical feature, depending on what you choose you can show a small description of the menu entry.

see screenshot here
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4967/ub...linuxultvi2.png
(the message at the bottom will change depending on which menu entry).
I think if UBCD will switch from isolinux to grub4dos them will need this handy feature?

Also nice looking is the multi level menu, example at http://linux.softpedia.com/screenshots/Syslinux_3.jpg

[Icecube]

The default Ultimate Boot CD iso will still be isolinux based. The grub4dos menu will be an option for users who have problems with floppy images loaded by memdisk, but for which grub4dos floppy emulation works.

[mr_]

It's like sparkling wine or seltzer, you can not have both. Therefore I make this request here.

[Icecube]

I would like to see this feature too.

I think it won't be that hard to implement because grub4dos (and grub) already can display the following text at the place where I want to see the HELP TEXT.

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Use the UP and DOWN keys to highlight an entry. Press ENTER or 'b' to boot.
Press 'e' to edit the commands before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.


The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 10 seconds.

[caze]

has anyone already experimented with help feature of gfxmenu in this regard?

[Icecube]

Thanks to the grub4dos developer to implement the help text display function similar to the combination of isolinux with menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32.

I have tested it with UBCD50 for with I am making a native grub4dos menu. It works fine.

Quote from the documentation:

The help message at the bottom of the screen will vary as you choose the menu.

You may append your help text to the title line. The help text must begin
with "\n", for example:

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    title This is the title\nThis is the help text.\nAnd this is the 2nd line of the help text.

Some C-style quote sequences are interpreted as follows:

\NNN character with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)

\\ backslash

\a alert (BEL)

\b backspace

\f form feed

\n new line

\r carriage return

\t horizontal tab

\v vertical tab

\xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)

[Icecube]

@ tinybit
I tried grub4dos (14 February 2009):

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color cyan/black black/light-gray green/black

It shows the colors for the help text fine, but when there is no help text, the following text is still shown in light-grey:

Use the UP and DOWN keys to highlight an entry. Press ENTER or 'b' to boot.
Press 'e' to edit the commands before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.

When you try, the following, it looks weird (help text part) (yes, very ugly colors, I know. It is just an example )

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color green/light-gray blue/black red/yellow

Is it also possible to shift the help text and the "Use the UP and DOWN keys ..." one space to the right (so one space from the left border).

In the first picture you can see how I want it (added a space at the beginning of each line of the help text myself).

The "The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in X seconds." may mess the colors up too, when you have fixed the background color of the help text to cover the whole part below the menu. So don't forget it (unless it is a feature of course).

[Icecube]

Grub4dos (15 February 2009) solves the color drawing problem from above.
It is also possible to use all listed colors as fore- and background now.
In older versions you couldn't set white as background color (Error 23: while parsing number).

New synthax:

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color NORMAL [HIGHLIGHT [HELPTEXT [HEADINGS]]]

Example:

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color green/black light-cyan/light-red light-magenta/white blue/dark-gray

[tinybit]

Grub4dos (15 February 2009) solves the color drawing problem from above.
It is also possible to use all listed colors as fore- and background now.
In older versions you couldn't set white as background color (Error 23: while parsing number).

New synthax:

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color NORMAL [HIGHLIGHT [HELPTEXT [HEADINGS]]]

Example:

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color green/black light-cyan/light-red light-magenta/white blue/dark-gray

Thanks for the quick feedback.

[kDn]

1. Grub4dos (15 February 2009) have a bug. When splashimage is present screen shifts 1 line top on pressing navigate keys. Try to press and hold "Up" key.

2. Feature request:
Can you add option like configfile /menu.lst which executed when leaving gfxmenu? It's useful when we have UTF-8 encoded gfx-style menu (national language support) and other menu in ASCII splash/text-style (for normal look like in text mode, where national symbols not printable >0x80 (no codepage)). Or (as another solution) - something like titlegfx for gfx-style, when we have:

title Text Mode title
titlegfx UTF-8 encoded title (здесь что-то на русском)
map /boot/OfflineNTPassword.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)