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Full Menu View

A full menu view supports displaying a list of times on a screen in a very configurable manner. A full menu view supports either a single row or column of values, similar to Horizontal Menu (HM) and Vertical Menu (VM), or in multiple columns.

General Information

Items can be selected on a menu via the cursor keys, Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End, or by selecting them via a hotKey - see Hot Keys below.

ℹ️ A full menu view is defined with a percent (%) and the characters FM, followed by the view number. For example: %FM1

ℹ️ See MCI for general information on how to use views and common configuration properties available for them.

Properties

Property	Description
textStyle	Sets the standard (non-focus) text style. See Text Styles in MCI
focusTextStyle	Sets focus text style. See Text Styles in MCI
itemSpacing	Used to separate items vertically in the menu
itemHorizSpacing	Used to separate items horizontally in the menu
height	Sets the height of views to display multiple items vertically (default 1)
width	Sets the width of a view to display one or more columns horizontally (default 15)
focus	If set to true, establishes initial focus
submit	If set to true any accept action upon this view will submit the encompassing form
hotKeys	Sets hot keys to activate specific items. See Hot Keys below
hotKeySubmit	Set to submit a form on hotkey selection
argName	Sets the argument name for this selection in the form
justify	Sets the justification of each item in the list. Options: left (default), right, center
itemFormat	Sets the format for a list entry. See Entry Formatting in MCI
fillChar	Specifies a character to fill extra space in the menu with. Defaults to an empty space
textOverflow	If a single column cannot be displayed due to width, set overflow characters. See Text Overflow below
items	List of items to show in the menu. See Items below.
focusItemFormat	Sets the format for a focused list entry. See Entry Formatting in MCI

Hot Keys

A set of hotKeys are used to allow the user to press a character on the keyboard to select that item, and optionally submit the form.

Example:

hotKeys: { A: 0, B: 1, C: 2, D: 3 }
hotKeySubmit: true

This would select and submit the first item if A is typed, second if B, etc.

Items

A full menu, similar to other menus, take a list of items to display in the menu. For example:

items: [
  {
      text: First Item
      data: first
  }
  {
      text: Second Item
      data: second
  }
]

If the list is for display only (there is no form action associated with it) you can omit the data element, and include the items as a simple list:

["First item", "Second item", "Third Item"]

Text Overflow

The textOverflow option is used to specify what happens when a text string is too long to fit in the width defined. Note, because columns are automatically calculated, this can only occur when the text is too long to fit the width using a single column.

ℹ️ If textOverflow is not specified at all, a menu can become wider than the width if needed to display a single column.

ℹ️ Setting textOverflow to an empty string textOverflow: "" will cause the item to be truncated if necessary without any characters displayed

ℹ️ Otherwise, setting textOverflow to one or more characters will truncate the value if necessary and display those characters at the end. i.e. textOverflow: ...

Examples

A simple vertical menu - similar to VM

Configuration fragment (expand to view)

``` FM1: { submit: true argName: navSelect width: 1 items: [ { text: login data: login } { text: apply data: new user } { text: about data: about } { text: log off data: logoff } ] }

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### A simple horizontal menu - similar to HM

![Example](../../assets/images/full_menu_view_example2.gif "Horizontal menu")

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FM2: { focus: true height: 1 width: 60 // set as desired submit: true argName: navSelect items: [ "prev", "next", "details", "toggle queue", "rate", "help", "quit" ] }

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### A multi-column navigation menu with hotkeys


![Example](../../assets/images/full_menu_view_example3.gif "Multi column menu")

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FM1: { focus: true height: 6 width: 60 submit: true argName: navSelect hotKeys: { M: 0, E: 1, D: 2 ,F: 3,!: 4, A: 5, C: 6, Y: 7, S: 8, R: 9, O: 10, L:11, U:12, W: 13, B:14, G:15, T: 16, Q:17 } hotKeySubmit: true items: [ { text: M) message area data: message } { text: E) private email data: email } { text: D) doors data: doors } { text: F) file base data: files } { text: !) global newscan data: newscan } { text: A) achievements data: achievements } { text: C) configuration data: config } { text: Y) user stats data: userstats } { text: S) system stats data: systemstats } { text: R) rumorz data: rumorz } { text: O) onelinerz data: onelinerz } { text: L) last callers data: callers } { text: U) user list data: userlist } { text: W) whos online data: who } { text: B) bbs list data: bbslist } { text: G) node-to-node messages data: nodemessages } { text: T) multi relay chat data: mrc } { text: Q) quit data: quit } ] }

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