                 Acorn Menu      Alan Trewartha 1996
                ============    v 0.01
                
 Acorn Menu opens directories & runs applications

  Click the mouses menu button over the window and a
  menu drops down with a list of files and a Quit.
  Simply select an item to run/open a file/directory.
  Follow the submenus down the directory structure.
  Drag an icon over the window to add it to the menu.
  Hold ALT and select an item to remove it.
  
  
 Acorn Menu organises messy windows

  Click the action button, !, and all the windows
  tile neatly into position. (It tries hard anyway.)
  This is the PROCaction in the User library.
  
  
 Acorn Menu gives quick information

  The window displays one of three different essential
  facts at the touch of a radio button - no mucking
  about with menus and configurations.
  It is set up to show:
  1. 12-hour time  2. Date  3. FreeRam

  These are set by the FNButtonOne, FNButtonTwo and
  FNButtonThree in the User library.


 Installation

  Copy the application to wherever you want. Double
  click on the icon to get it running as per usual.
  Drag whatever application/directory/program icons you
  want over the window. There you go.
  

 Window

  Hold down Ctrl and Alt to float the window to
  the top of the stack of windows. This condition is
  set by FNfloatkeys in the User library.


 The User library

  The idea of this short program is to make it relatively
  easy to personalise for the simple BASIC buff. Please
  feel free to do so. Mess around with it all you want.

  FNButtonOne, ButtonTwo, ButtonThree
  These can pass back any string up to 40 characters long
  without any problems, though only a maximum of 13 will
  fit in the window.


 Other stuff

  Inside the application folder (hold down SHIFT and
  double click the icon to open it) is a further folder
  called Commands. This contains some simple BASIC   
  programs that I use. This folder is useful to have on
  the menu.
  You can of course edit MenuData in your text editor
  if you so desire. You can get rid of submenus on an
  application by removing the final . and add the root
  directory of your hard drive, e.g. IDEFS::Alan.$..
  
  This application is freeware, that is, it can be
  distributed freely as long as only reasonable charges
  are made for media and distribution. I retain
  copyright on all program code and documentation.

  Acorn Menu is a much improved version of a similar
  program called !The Menu which I also wrote.
  Please send any reports of bugs - I have no idea
  how it runs on other versions of RISC OS, or on
  a decent monitor!

  Have you tried my desktop game !Clumps? Its top!

  Alan Trewartha
  16 Ebbsfleet Road
  Cricklewood
  London NW2 3NA   (telephone           0171 2095924)
                   (e-mail   alant@alant.demon.co.uk)



To do list:

Load the correct sprite file depending on mode.
Check that it works in other modes!
Add icons to the menus (?) like TreeMenHD
Anything else?