Steve ][ wrote:
My IIGS boots from a CF drive into GS/OS 6. Instead of the Finder, I'd like to boot into a quick-n-dirty menu program. Something with large (tiled?) icons and text descriptions, the icons/buttons could be mouse-clicked or keyboard-selected. The IIGS display is currently a 27" TV connected via a VOC, so easy readibility and use is a must. I vaugely remember something like this, (maybe from Econ Technologies?), and I'd like to implement it so my kids can get into the paint programs and educational stuff - some apps are executable and some are 800k disk images.
I'd be inclined to write a simple Applesoft program to display the 2-6 "icons" as an HGR page, and use HPLOT statements to draw (and erase) "selection" boxes around them in turn as the arrow keys were used to "move" the selection. The Enter key, space bar, or whatever could cause the selected program to be loaded and run. I'm not sure how to start a GSOS program from ProDOS, but it seems doable... -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."