## Contents

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- Overview

- What is included in Suntan Special?
- This edition of Suntan Special

- Installation

- Partitioning hard drives
- Boot Manager
- Choosing an Application Directory
- Source Directories
- Software Repository
- Product Keys
- Modified Boot Diskettes
- Installing the Operating System

- Warp 4
- Warp Server for e-Business
- Warp 4 Convenience Pack (MCP)
- Warp Server for e-Business Convenience Package (ACP)
- eComStation 1.0
- eComStation 1.1
- eComStation 1.2 media refresh
- eComStation 2.0
- eComStation 2.1
- eComStation 2.2
- ArcaOS 5.0

- Make a Backup
- Installing Suntan Special
- Running Suntan Special
- Platform Sequence
- Thinkpad Sequence
- Application Sequence
- Other Sequences
- Saving Settings
- Removing Suntan Special

- Using Suntan Special

- Downloading Updates
- Upgrade from previous editions
- After upgrading from previous editions

- Customizing Suntan Special

- Editing Sequences
- Adding Files to Extra Applications
- Creating Sequences
- Creating Applications
- Suntan Special API

- AddBook
- ApplicationEd
- cdglobal
- CDMessage
- CDMessageWait
- CDPopup
- checklist
- choice
- DevFolder
- DoWarpIN
- DoYum
- EditConfigSys
- EditFile
- editpath
- ejectCD
- evar
- ExecuteCommand
- FindBootDrive
- GamesFolder
- GetExtra
- InstallApp
- LogCdi
- MessageDialog
- ProgramFolder
- query
- QuerySettings
- radiolist
- saywords
- SeqDel
- SeqImport
- setCDletter
- setSetting
- startgui
- SuntanMkDir
- Timestamp
- TPCallback
- twopanel

- Suntan Special Display Monitor

- Application Page
- Sequence Page
- Log Page
- Help Page
- Settings Editor
- Sequence Editor

- Contents of this Edition

- Sequence List
- Application List

- Suntan Special Application Table
- Extra Applications
- Catalog Applications

- Settings List

- Support

- System Requirements
- Why I created Suntan Special
- Contacting Blonde Guy
- Notes for SCSI users
- Notes for USB users
- Command Line Operation
- Troubleshooting
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Application database
- Release Notes
- Release Notes

- License

Suntan Special version 0.68

Suntan Special Web edition

### choice

#### Suntan Special Function: choice

Choice presents a dialog containing up to five mutually exclusive items to the user.

#### Syntax:

selectedItem = choice(dialogName, instructions, default, item1, item2...)

#### Program Arguments

1. dialogName - title line for VIO and the name of the tab on the Display Monitor
2. instructions - instructions to the user; up to 900 characters
3. default - value of the item that is initially selected
4. item1, ... item5 - list of items

#### Returns:

string containing the selected item

#### Note:

The space available in the display monitor may be small in some video The text will be flowed onto the screen, wrapping as needed. If a hard line break is desired, use the '~' character, or the carriage return, ASCII value 13.

The space available in the display monitor may be small in some video modes, and the message display does not scroll. Make the message short and to the point.

Last Modified: 24 Dec 2019
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Copyright 2019 by Blonde Guy