Providing supplementary information for menu items

The item descriptor description defines supplementary information to be displayed on the same line as the menu item. You might want to use it to give your users a brief explanation of what an item does. This example shows how it is used.

   menu="My First Menu"
   begrow=center
   begcol=30
   

   name="Run UNIX System V"
   action=unix-system
   

   name="Find Modified Files"
   action=`find $HOME -mtime -7 -print > modfiles`nop
   description="contents changed in past 7 days"
   interrupt=false
   

   name="Find Executable Files"
   action=`find $HOME -perm -100 -print > execfiles`nop
   oninterrupt=`message Partial output is in execfiles`nop
   

   name="Exit My Application"
   action=exit

Menu.descrip: an example of the description descriptor

This menu definition file creates the following menu:

Menu.descrip: screen output

This is a single-column menu. It will be a single-column menu even if the rows or columns descriptors are defined in an attempt to make it multi-column, because when the description descriptor is explicitly defined, the columns descriptor is ignored.