Re: [NEWBIE] In nanny reading files like background

From: James Thomas (rasdan1@home.com)
Date: 12/10/00


Whatever it is that you called the text you wish to display.
For example, if you wanted to add a disclaimer and you
called it char *disclaimer then you would put disclaimer
in there.

Ras


> SOrry I don't get this what do i put in YourString?
>
> James Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I am trying to add another thing like background in the menu, like
> > > background at first i just used a bunch of "SEND_TO_Q" but it was soo
> > > long it just went off the page and you couldn't read the top. Then i
> > > tried to do it like background and just read a file. that didn't work
i
> > > musta missed a refrence or something. so if u can tell me how to add
> > > some breaks that would say press any key to continue in the
"SEND_TO_Q"
> > > part, or all the places i need to refrence the file that would be
> > > great.  At this point I don't care which.  Thanks alot
> > You just need to read your new text on bootup as background is done
> > (search for file_to_string_alloc in db.c) and then add your option to
the
> > menu, then in your case statement, do:
> >
> > sprintf(buf, "%s\r\nPress RETURN to continue\r\n", YourString);
> > page_string(d, buf, 0);
> > break;
> >
> > That should do it!
> >
> > Ras

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