He came over again for a refresher course on how to add an additional menu entry to HVMENU. In order to ake it easier for him to understand I built a web page with screen captures (done using PrintKey) and he suggested it might make a good article for the I/O Port, so here it is.
To add a new item to the Rotary page, called "Yearly Member Exp" let us bring up Notepad, select All Files rather than just txt, and open the file exmplmenu_var.js.
We want the item to be in Club Info, which currently reads Menu2=new Array("Club Info","index.html","", 9, 25, 80);. We change the 9 to a 10, because we want the new entry to be under Club Info. Then we do a cut and paste with Menu2_9=new Array("Pioneers","pioneer.html","",0); and put a copy directly under Menu2_9, change the 9 to a 10, and change Pioneers to Yearly Member Exp. and we change pioneer.html to expense.html
We save that file, and close Notepad. We then open Mozilla, and click the icon with the pen on the piece of paper to bring up the composer.
In the Mozilla Composer, NOT the browser, we do a File, Open File of a_pattern.html, and then immediately do a File, Save As, and enter the name expense or expense.html (if you don't specify anything, the composer will use an extension of html). Now we have expense.html open in composer.
Click on <HTML> Source
and move down until you see </body>. Just before that type xxx
and click on Preview and you will see where the xxx is. Mark those letters and type in what you want the Expense screen to look like.
This added a page vertically under an existing category. If you want to add another category horizontally, then in the edit of exmplmenu_var.js you would change the 5 to a 6:
var NoOffFirstLineMenus=5; // Number of first level items
and add a line like:
Menu6=new Array("Expense","expense.html","", 0, 25, 50);
That would give us something like
which is a little too short. Let us change the 50 pixel width, and make it 75
| Menu6=new Array("Expense","expense.html","", 0, 25, | 75 | ); |
and it fits.
When I was able to get around a lot easier than I can now, and attend all TCS meetings, I would demonstrate something like this at a meeting, but currently about all I can do is something like this.
If you have any question that you would like to see me answer like this in a future article in the I/O Port, let me know.
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