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Is there somebody using Dougmenu? And is there somebody who could improve it? I got request from one user who would needed it.


One of the underlying tools you'll see in action when using eGPU Setup 1.x is the Dougmenu menu system. A great piece of software but could certainly do with some enhancements. The author appears to have disappeared but I found source code for almost the latest. It's linked at the bottom of this post. I tried to get on the 'DOS Ain't Dead' forum to make a request but have not had approval for a login as yet.

Perhaps something you can put out and see if anyone's interested in developing further? Some enhancements that I'd request being:

* provide facility to remove the title, so menus can then sit at position (0,0). Now needs to sit at (0,3) due to the title.
* ability to place window text without a surrounding window
* menuitems that accept variable names rather than static text
* gray out menuitems that are not applicatble
* Allow > 24 line window size
* radio select/check buttons

Cheers,

Nando


probably latest source here: http://www.netware-server.de/download/tools/menue/dm172src.zip

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> One of the underlying tools you'll see in action when using eGPU Setup 1.x
> is the Dougmenu menu system. A great piece of software but could certainly
> do with some enhancements. The author appears to have disappeared but I
> found source code for almost the latest. It's linked at the bottom of this
> post. I tried to get on the 'DOS Ain't Dead' forum to make a request but
> have not had approval for a login as yet.
>
> ...
>
> Nando
>

Here's the reason, he didn't get an approval:
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  nando4@gmail.com
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> Here's the reason, he didn't get an approval:
> [code]A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

Yes address seems to be bad, should be ... [problem solved]

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> probably latest source here:
> http://www.netware-server.de/download/tools/menue/dm172src.zip

I was able to build a whole application using Dougmenu as the backend to provide context sensitive help, variable menus and a user friendly menu to batch files and additional programs such as snarf, DOSZIP, and FreeDOS' fdhelp. It's very easy to do.



Can download eGPU Setup 1.x devel version from here if want a closer look.

Which is why I'd love it if someone would be willing to continue to develop Dougmenu. It appears to be abandonware.

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> Is there somebody using Dougmenu? And is there somebody who could improve
> it? I got request from one user who would needed it.
>
> Perhaps something you can put out and see if anyone's interested in
> developing further? Some enhancements that I'd request being:
>
> * provide facility to remove the title, so menus can then sit at position
> (0,0). Now needs to sit at (0,3) due to the title.
> * ability to place window text without a surrounding window
> * Allow > 24 line window size
>
> probably latest source here:
> http://www.netware-server.de/download/tools/menue/dm172src.zip

Wondering if anybody would like to further develop Dougmenu?