Introduction

Most of the display/analysis programs supported by the UDFAdmin Tool are front-ended by menus derived from the Generic Menu Tcl Scripts. These menus provide an easy, user friendly interface to both the program specific options and to the UDF source definitions(s).

The Generic Menus interface is initiated by the call

UNIX $UDFTOOL_HOME/bin/CONTROL

WINDOWS wish $UDFTOOL_HOME/bin/CONTROL

The full path designation is not necessary if $UDFTOOL_HOME is in your search path. The call invokes the Generic Menu Control Panel:

which is a launching pad to any program which uses the Generic Menus as a front-end. Basically the Control Panel has the following functions:

• Provides a mechanism for the default menu preferences to be altered.

• Ingest a previously defined or empty (new) Menu File.

• Allows for the execution of the program associated with an ingested Menu file.

• Provides for the addition of Comments to a Menu File.

The menu is divided into three separate blocks. In the top block are the control buttons through which preferences can be altered, Menu Files can be searched for, Loaded and Saved. Below this is the menu information block which displays the selected menu, the file name it is to be saved to and any comments associated with the menu. At the bottom of the menu is a pair of scrollable lists which hold the list of menu pages loaded with the menu. The Menu Comments field and the Menu Page List is only filled when a menu is loaded.