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Re: Tool Soft Menu problem

2009-07-18 by rickwendel763242

What everybody else said is a very good point, but I feel that there is a useful alternative to simply manipulating your menus. When you have a program that has many aspects to it, use CHOOSE boxes. For example, I just wrote a "standard program set up" program that uses CHOOSE boxes and case statements to get to where you want to go. Say you wanted to convert from polar to rectangular and vice versa. But you also wanted to add, subtract, multiply, divide and find the average of complex numbers in either polar or rectangular format and you didn't want to have to use parethesis or commas. You could do that with one CHOOSE box. If you wanted to work with a specific electronic circuit that uses specific formulas you could use more than one CHOOSE box e.g. have an electronics selection box with "RCL circuit" as one choice. Then have a RCL circuit CHOOSE box to select series or parallel and finally one to pick if its an RC, RL, LC, or RLC. You can also use message boxes to tell you what format or order to enter your data in. This avoids having to use parenthesis and commas and so on. This might insult the sensibilities of hardcore programmers by causing a 1 second delay in execution but I think it organizes the programs so that you don't have so many to worry about. I'll add the program to my files.

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