MenuLongTopicItemclassmenusys.t[1275]

Long Topic Items are used to print out big long gobs of text on a subject. Use it for printing long treatises on your design philosophy and the like.

class MenuLongTopicItem :   MenuItem

Superclass Tree   (in declaration order)

MenuLongTopicItem
        MenuItem
                MenuObject
                        object

Subclass Tree  

MenuLongTopicItem
        HintLongTopicItem

Global Objects  

(none)

Summary of Properties  

heading  isChapterMenu  menuContents  menuLongTopicEnd  title 

Inherited from MenuItem :
bgcolor  curKeyList  fgcolor  fullScreenMode  indent  keyList  prevMenuLink  topbarbg  topbarfg 

Inherited from MenuObject :
contents  menuOrder 

Summary of Methods  

showMenuCommon  showMenuHtml  showMenuText 

Inherited from MenuItem :
display  getNextMenu  getPrevMenu  refreshTopMenuBanner  removeStatusLine  removeTopMenuBanner  showTopMenuBanner  updateContents 

Inherited from MenuObject :
addToContents  compareForMenuSort  execute  initializeContents  initializeLocation 

Properties  

headingOVERRIDDENmenusys.t[1280]

the heading, shown while we're displaying our contents

isChapterMenumenusys.t[1291]
Flag - this is a "chapter" in a list of chapters. If this is set to true, then we'll offer the options to proceed directly to the next and previous chapters. If this is nil, we'll simply wait for acknowledgment and return to the parent menu.

menuContentsmenusys.t[1283]
either a string to be displayed, or a routine

menuLongTopicEndmenusys.t[1294]
the message we display at the end of our text

titleOVERRIDDENmenusys.t[1277]
the title of the menu, shown in parent menus

Methods  

showMenuCommon (topMenu)menusys.t[1440]

show our contents - common handler for text and HTML modes

showMenuHtml (topMenu)OVERRIDDENmenusys.t[1318]
display and run our menu in HTML mode

showMenuText (topMenu)OVERRIDDENmenusys.t[1297]
display and run our menu in text mode

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