Re: Menu as 1-liner

>From: uunet!freya.muc.de!svb (Sebastian v. Bomhard) >Subject: Menu as 1-liner >Date: 1 Jul 1993 00:19:58 +0200 >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.3675> >Ok, I give in. I tried to display a menu in one single line. >OPEN WINDOW w_p_men AT 2,2 WITH 1 ROWS, 77 COLUMNS ATTRIBUTE(BORDER) >I need that window for a multipurpose window in a mask where I have >not very much room ... As one might expect, the menu is not very nice: >It's all blank, because those help lines overwrite the menu items. It >is LAST LINE == FIRST LINE, that's the problem. I tried attributes, no >help. >:-( all combinations. According to the manual there really seems to be >no option "nomessage" or were I too fast to give in? There is no "No Message" option. > ... I have only three rows for that. >What did you say? The border? I NEED the border, it looks so ugly >without it... ;-) Best I can offer is to suggest you draw a line across the top of a standard 2-line menu at the bottom of the screen. It may not be a border, but it'll separate your window from what is above it. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>