Once you started Menu Master, you will see the main screen. From here the left side shows the Menu Items you had created in the folder that is displayed underneath the "Menu Items At..." at the top of the screen. If you haven't created any menu items yet, then you will not see any items appearing on the left side. You will need to go into the Menu Editor to create menu items for a folder and it's sub-folders.

If you have "Load / Browsed" or "Located" to a folder that DOES have menu items, then you will see them on the left side. You can scroll up and down the menu and as you do so, the right side of the screen shows you the description that the menu item contains. You also have 2 buttons to click.

• Action Button:
• Open The Folder:

The action button can say pretty much anything (user definable) and it typically opens a specific file. The "Open The Folder" button doesn't run anything specific, but instead just opens the contents of the folder for you to look at.

HINT: When you close the program, it saves the location that you were working on. The next time you run the program, that location will be auto-loaded for you to save you the trouble of using the "Load / Browse" program menu.

This program has a main menu at the very top, just like any other program. Several of them are self explanatory, but the ones that are not are described here in detail.

In case you don't have a folder all setup to play with, you can create a sample project folder. This folder will be stored in your Window's TEMP folder. That way, eventually it will be removed. The project folder will contain several subfolders and various programs and such. It will also contain several Menu Items. From this sample project folder, you should be able to see a lot of how this program works.

This allows you to point the program to a folder that has menu items in it. After the menu items are loaded, they are displayed on the screen for you. If you created several menu item <!menu.ini> files in a folder called "C:\Downloads" and it's children, then you would typically just point to the "C:\Downloads" folder.

NOTE: Although you COULD specify "C:\" instead of "C:\Downloads", the reason you would NOT want to specify "C:\" is because, it will take longer to load because the whole hard drive will have to be searched, instead of the more specific folder. PLUS, when you go to BURN the CD, it will take the folder that you last browsed to. So, if it was "C:\", then it would try to burn the contents of "C:\" onto a CD. There is NO WAY you could fit all the files from your "C:\" drive onto a CD. Or at least 99.99% of the systems out there ;) Remember when it comes time to burn the folder, that you should have a more specific folder loaded at that point in time.

This takes you to the Menu Editor. This allows you to create or update or delete menu items. As you create menu items, you are making the resulting menu larger. As you delete menu items, you are making the resulting menu smaller.

This is VERY handy indeed. Let's pretend you had lots of menu systems created on your system. Let's say you created one on drive C:\ and one on H:\ and one on a network drive called \\Server\Utilities ... Well, you could use the LOCATE feature and select those drives and network paths and POOF, they ALL get loaded at once so you can see ALL the menu systems of interest. At this point you could delete the menu items, or edit them or create more. The ability to see ALL of your menu items in one concise list is very friendly.

Not only is the menu system easy to use, but you can SEARCH the menu items for some text. Just type in the text and POOF, it searches all of the currently displaying menu items for any matches. It will then show you which menu items match the search query. All fields in the menu item are searched (Title, File, Description ).