[syslinux] Scrollbar visibility

[Gene Cumm]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:59,  <vfaj-q0gm at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:08 -0400, "Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 00:01,  <vfaj-q0gm at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
>> > When I added more entries than would fit vertically in a PXE boot
>> > menu (Cobbler's, using menu.c32), I wondered why there wasn't a
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ by chance?
>
> Yes, that's it.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=cobbler;a=blob;f=templates/pxe/pxedefault.template;hb=HEAD
looks like it might be the basis for the config that's being used.  If
there are no other lines in your config that begin "MENU" (especially
"MENU COLOR" and "MENU BACKGROUND"; case insensitive), you should be
using the default colors.

In the default colors, the border is a black foreground with blue
background.  The right-hand side should appear to be a thin or medium
width line that goes for the full height when there is no need for
scrolling.  When there is a need for scrolling, the slider should be
on top of this line and show up as a full hashed box (I believe
character #178, 0xB2).

> (snip)
>> > Would it be possible to add up and down arrows to the top and
>>
>> This should be possible by changing 2 characters in the appropriate C
>> file in menu.
>
> Is there a way to request an enhancement to Syslinux like this?  I
> didn't see an issue tracker.

To my knowledge, there is none, at the moment.  However, I also think
the community is very responsive.

> I looked at the Wiki's web link for the sources briefly, but don't see
> where the menu is - when I click on a "tree" link in the web interface,
> I don't get a full tree view, just a view of a single level, so it is
> clumsy to try and look around.

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Menu.c32 and
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Comboot/menu.c32 however I
believe doc/menu.txt (in the Syslinux binary/source package) is
considered the official documentation.

-- 
-Gene