[syslinux] Opinion wanted on F-key help in the simple menu system

[Keith Schincke]

The first option would be consistent with the way the plain boot system
works.
The second would be a 'fresher and more hip' but harder way of doing it.

I like the first option but is it possible to have both ways?

1) F key to display a backwards compatible help message in a text box.
2) An option to clear the display before displaying the message.
3) Option to display a help graphic instead of help text.

You are doing a great job on this.

Keith

On 3/5/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 3.40 is getting close to feature complete, with the one thing I really
> want to add is support for F-key help in the simple menu system.
>
> However, I'm not 100% sure how I want to do it.  This may seem trivial,
> but it actually matters.
>
> One option is to have the F-key help clear the screen and display text,
> similar to the way it would work at the plain boot prompt.
>
> Another option is to have the F-key help draw a window over the existing
> display and display the text there.
>
> The first option would make it easier to share help files with the
> command line prompt, but that may not really be that interesting.  It
> would also allow for changing the background (in vesamenu) if one would
> want to.  The second option I suspect would look better.
>
> Opinions?
>
>         -hpa
>
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