text based menu program or generators

[Basheer_2]

Greetings
For HP-UX and AIX
Anybody know of any text based menu generators or programs. looking for somewhat similar to SAM or smitty

I have about 2000 menus, main menu calling other menues, calling other menues etc..
At the lowest level each menu runs a informix 4gl program. I have created the vertical menues in informix 4GL where in lets say the main menu has 33 menu items, user has to type in the menu # in order to run. users didn't like it, they want to scroll to the menu or type in the # to run that program
Thanks in advance.

[Pete Randall]

How about the 4gen tools? You can get them from
Fourth Generation, Inc
2814 Spring Rd Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30339
770-432-3448

That's what we use in our Informix environment. The users can just key in the menu number and it takes them right there.



Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I've got a curses based menu program written myself, and all our customers (and internal people not working from the prompt) use it. IMHO it's free software (as in free beer), but I don't know if my boss allows me to get it into the free world. Should I ask?

The menu's are plain text and menu's can nest

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Chris Wilshaw]

HP-UX is supplied with a utility called TSM, which can be used to set up menus, which can be controlled with cursor keys and/or shortcuts.

It may be suitable for your needs.

The main problem I've found with it is that you're restricted to the number of active tty's that it can use (I believe that the limit is 176) which you can reach quite quickly depending on the number of users you have.

[Basheer_2]

Pete: We are using fourgen's oldest software for hp-ux. another company www.gillani.com an IBM partner have new updated tools, Unfortunately can NOT afford now.

Procura: If its free, can I try atleast.

Chris: I will try that

[Paul Sperry]

xenmenu-0.8b
A text based menu generator for UN*X systems. With xenmenu, users have an easy to understand yet flexible menu programming language with which to create pleasing menus quickly and easily.

you can get it here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/xenmenu-0.8b/