I recycled an old program from DOS days and created a tcl prog which reads a script file at startup and present this as hierarchical menus. I need this to work on several inhomogenous systems where the icons where here and there and everywhere and nowhere, and I need a way to quickly run things.

Every menu item could be a complete tcl script, with some restrictions and some helper routines like "select" or "msgbox".

Example of a dialog screen with an open sub selection menu:

[http://home.arcor.de/hoffenbar/prog/menue.jpg]

Some words to some of the functions and keys:

   * <Return> starts the selected item, that is: going down in the hierarchy or exec'ing the underlying commands.
   * <Hotkey> locates and starts the first matching item (top down). Hotkeys are not shown so far.
   * <.>      goes on level up in the hierarchy.
   * </>      goes to the root menu.
   * <F3>     shows the commands behind the current item.
   * <F5>     reloads the menu-definition files.
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The programm loads all files '''*.mnu'''
   1. in the current directory
   2. in the program directory
unless other dir(s) specified with command line switch '''--mnuDir'''.

Those .MNUs can only contain a very limited set of commands:

Additionally, the file(s) (progDir)/*.mak are sourced only once at program load time. They could contain almost any tcl command, and are not intended to be edited by an end user.
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