How to get the most out of your Custom Menu
Frontier provides tremendous flexibility to you, the Frontier user.
But with that flexibility comes the problem of managing a system whose contents the developers (UserLand) can't predict. So UserLand provided several ways for you to extend and manage your own distinct Frontier environment.
You can create your own Suites of scripts and tools, or you can choose from a plethora of suites provided to the Frontier community by other developers (see Doodads for a directory--albeit incomplete--of available suites). Suites often have their own menus, to make them easy to use. Some popular examples include Mimi and XFile.
If you're experienced with C or C++, you can create Extensions that plug in at a lower level to add new or improved capabilities to the Frontier environment. The regex extension is one popular example.
Sometimes neither of these approaches is appropriate. Maybe a suite does not only what you need, but two dozen other things that you'd just as soon not have to deal with. Or maybe you just need a small script to tie together several operations.
To manage such requirements, Frontier provides the Custom Menu.
It's Your Toolbox
All Frontier users, from beginning to expert, can take advantage of the Custom Menu. Think of the Custom Menu as your personal toolbox. If you need to add a different size screwdriver, you can do so. (And Frontier gives you a lot of freedom in selecting--or making--new screwdrivers!) And if you need to use that new screwdriver more than just occasionally, you need it readily available--hence the Custom Menu. You can change it at any time to work better for you. And the easier it is to modify your Custom Menu, the more likely you are to use it to your advantage.
Author: Samuel Reynolds
Email: reynol@primenet.com
First Published: Tues, 27 Sep 1998 at 11:10 AM
Last Revision: Tues, 27 Sep 1998 at 11:10 AM
Keywords: custom,menu,environment,customization,organize,organization
Level of Difficulty: Easy
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Are you ready? Then let me introduce the Custom Menu.
Page 1: The Custom Menu
Page 2: Organizing Your Custom Menu
Page 3: Organizing Your Custom Scripts
Page 4: Custom Menu Management Approach
Page 5: How to Clone Your Custom Menu
Page 6: A Few More Tips
Page 7: About the Author
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