Screen Menu programming....

[Mike "the Rat"]

Please advise finding books or web pages for creating screen menus for ME10 veer. 8.7 I have a basic ME10 macro book, not a lot of information though. I have created the template and screen menus and having problems getting them to load. I have attempted using "echo" with no luck. Thanks in advance.

[Greg Webb]

Mike, the best way to learn about macro programming is by example. Save all of the system macros by using this command: SAVE_MACRO ALL 'filename'. This will save all the macros that come with ME10 under the "filename" you give in the command. The screen menus will start with "Sm_". So the Create menu will be "Sm_create_1" There will also be a layout macro that defines the menu slots layout. Copy a menu to a new file. Edit all the commands, and then input the file. Execute the title of the new name of the screen menu, such as "Sm_holes" and that menu will pop up. Be careful if syntax is not perfect it will not run.