Your BBS's main menu MUST! be stored in a file called TOP.PBM. All the other menus can have any file name you want to give them.

When you select the 'Menu Editor' option in PROCFG's main menu, a new window will be opened containing the menus already available (if any).

In this window, you can use the following keys:

Up/Down       Scroll up/down.
Enter         Select a menu.
Ins           Add a menu.

When you have selected a menu, a list of all the menu items will be displayed. To add a menu item, just move past the last item and press <Enter>. To insert an item, press <Ins>, to remove one, press <Del>. To edit a menu item, move the selector to that item and press <Enter>. You can change the menu prompt and highlight colors by pressing <Alt-P>. If you want to see how a menu will look, press <Alt-S> to simulate what your users will see when they view this menu.

You can also copy and paste menu items.

To copy an item, move to the item you want to copy, and press <Alt-C>. To insert the copied item somewhere else, move to the place where you want the menu item inserted, and press <Ctrl-P>. You can even copy and paste items across different menus.

A menu item has the following fields:

Textline..................... This is the string to be displayed.
                              Leaving this field blank causes a blank
                              line to be displayed to the user. A CR/LF
                              will be sent after the menu line. To avoid
                              this, just enter a ';' as the last
                              character.  This will cause the next
                              textline of the menu to be appended to this
                              one.
                              Special textline characters:
                                 ^ : Switches between normal and
                                     highlighted color.
                                 ~ : Replaced by the number of minutes
                                     the user has left in this session.
                                 ` : Replaced by the name of the current
                                     message area (more about this
                                     later).
                                 @ : Replaced by the name of the
                                     current file area (more about this
                                     later).
                              This textline can also contain text macros
                              like @<NAME>@ or @<NODE>@.  More about
                              this in the "Text macros" section.
                              You are not limited to two colors in menu
                              lines. You can use the codes \1 to \7 to
                              change colors, or \0 to return to the
                              original color.
Hotkey....................... Most of the menu functions must be chosen
                              by the user, so ProBoard must react to
                              certain key-presses from the user.
                              Receiving the hotkey for a certain menu
                              item will cause ProBoard to execute the
                              function associated with this item.  The
                              hotkey can be any ASCII character or
                              digit, but one character has a special
                              meaning to ProBoard: <Ctrl-A> will make
                              this function AUTOEXEC, which means that
                              this function will be executed as soon as
                              this menu item is displayed (without
                              really selecting this option).
Function..................... The function associated with this menu
                              item. Pressing the <Enter> key will cause
                              a complete list of all the menu functions
                              to be displayed in a separate window.
Data......................... This field is optional with some of the
                              functions. Basically, in this field you
                              enter the parameters of a menu function.
                              Eg. function 40 (Display ASC/ANS file)
                              needs a filename as data (parameter).
                              Function 1 (Goto menu) needs the name of
                              the menu to be jumped to. Text macros can
                              be inserted (see "Text macros" section).
Level........................ Level needed to access this menu item.
Flags........................ Flags needed to access this menu item.
Color........................ Color for the menu's textline to be
                              displayed in.