[syslinux] Does advanced menu actually support ontimeout?

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu
Sun Nov 6 10:03:57 PST 2005


For the tab_key code to take effect you need to register the "keys 
handler". Basically the menu system will call your keys handler, if the 
user presses any key which it does not understand. You can do what you 
want with it.

- Murali

Nazo wrote:
> I've finally gotten around to playing with the advanced menu, though
> the complex example is definitely still beyond me.  I'm trying to
> figure out a few basics from it, such as the tab key for line editing
> (don't know what I've done wrong here since it seems like I copied
> that part right) and the timeout.  It looks to me like the only
> ontimeout implemented so far is an option to not even show the menu at
> all if the user doesn't press a key within a certain time period. 
> But, I want it to show the menu and simply time out after a while of
> no keypresses.  Is there any way to implement this that doesn't
> require several pages of code?  Have I just gotten mixed up and it
> already does this but I copied that code wrong too?
>
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