NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System

Creating a configurable Documents menu

Mosaic for X 2.0 provides the means for sites to create their own Documents menus with a "Documents Menu Specfile."

By default there is no Documents menu in the menu bar. Places to look in order of preference at program startup are:

the value of the resource documentsMenuSpecfile (by default /usr/local/lib/mosaic/documents.menu)
the value of the environment variable MOSAIC_DOCUMENTS_MENU_SPECFILE
the value of the compile-time #define DOCUMENTS_MENU_SPECFILE (by default /usr/local/lib/mosaic/documents.menu).

The specfile itself consists of alternating lines of title and URL; a single line starting with two dashes ("--") between any two title/URL pairs counts as a separator. By default up to 80 things (title/URL pairs + separators) can be in a specfile (this can be increased in src/gui-menubar.c if necessary). An example specfile is distributed with the source code (but is not intended to be a default).

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