Wait, that means you can only have up to 5 choices right ?

Also, maybe you can display the title in inversed font, like Basic menus.

Apart from this, well done ! I'm sure many persons were waiting for this to pop out

Les Français vaincront !

Wait, that means you can only have up to 5 choices right ?

Also, maybe you can display the title in inversed font, like Basic menus.

Apart from this, well done ! I'm sure many persons were waiting for this to pop out

Les Français vaincront !

No ! You can have up to 7 choices ! If you had downloaded the zip (nobody did, but I got two points of karma : that's funny !), you'd have seen I provided an alternative which consists of generating data corresponding to the menu (I've made a generator in the zip), and sending an pointer to the data using this syntax : "Menu(GDB0)^rr".

Yes, but I don't know how to display the title in inversed font, because it's the OS routine which draws the menu.

Probably, and I hope it will be useful !

Pourquoi pas, ça m'irais bien ! 

YES finally! A quick alternative to creating your own menu system every time you write an axe program! This slipped under my radar, but I am glad I see it now!

In fact, I published it today, so you're one of the first people to see it !

This is interesting. I will most likely not use it since I don't code in Axe anymore but I know some people might not necessarily need complex menus in their games and might just want to use the default TI-OS ones.  In BASIC too it was pretty convenient and not too intrusive, game-design-wise, so it's good that they can now be used in Axe too.

Thank you. And, yeah, I'm one of these people who might not necessarily need complex menus...

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I'm thinking of the syntax of the Menu( command, for Axe... First, I think it'd be better that this functions returns the selected item's index, instead of jumping to a specified address. Sometimes you don't need to jump : this is the case if the menu is used in a game to ask the number of players. Additionally, it would be a shame to have menus limited to one title and only two choices, as for now commands are limited to six arguments. If you want it to jump to labels, you can use it in combination with Z-Test. But there are still different ways to include it :

• Use it like TI-Basic does : the first argument is the menu's title, and all the other are choices. The numeration is automatically made. It's easy to use, but very limited.
• The second way is to use the first character of each string to describe what the string corresponds to. Adding the prefix "." to any string will treat it as a title, and ":" as a choice. This allows more kinds of menus, and it'll be easier to add later other options, like "=" to input numbers, etc.
• Maybe use both ? Menu() will use the same syntax as TI-Basic does, and adding the ^r modifier will use the second way. This is a bit strange, though. And it will take a lot of bytes into Axe Parser, and everyone knows few bytes are remaining free.

What do you think ? (Personally, I think using both would be a waste, but I don't know which solution is better.)

If I was you, I would make it as simple as BASIC did, but perhaps with extra options and the ability to have more than 7 items at once. In BASIC, for example, it's impossible to make the title so that it uses black text on white background like the rest, and you are limited to a maximum of 7 menu items. Of course it would depend how much space there is for this, though.

It'd be better to have the title in inverted color, but currently, the only way I found to display the title is in black on white. And I'd love to find a way to have more than 7 items, but adding items beyond 7 makes it crashing...

Couldn't you use set 3,(iy+5) before writing the title, then res 3,(iy+5) after writing it to have it written in inverted color ?

No, I thought of it, but the menu is written in one fell swoop by the OS's routine, which must configure all the flags before.

It seems there is a conflict between your axiom and zStart (which would be quite annoying, because it is a very common shell) :

I had zStart installed (with every options activated), and I ran the following program (once compiled with Axe) :
.BUGGY
#Axiom(MENUS)
Menu("TITLE SCREEN","CHOICE1","CHOICE2","CHOICE3")

The program worked fine, but after the execution, almost every zStart's hooks were off : only the custom font was still on.