Plugin.menu_tip . Ventoy

Ventoy Menu Tip Plugin

With this plugin, you can set a tip message for the image files. This message will be shown when the corresponding image file is selected.
The tip can be in any format. Unicode characters are supported.

Json Configuration

Recommend to use VentoyPlugson, a GUI ventoy.json configurator. Refer VentoyPlugson
A menu_tip object is defined to describe the configuration in /ventoy/ventoy.json (UTF8 encoding is needed).

{
    "menu_tip": {
      "left": "10%",
      "top": "81%",
      "color": "blue",
      "tips": [
          {
              "image": "/linux/archlinux-2021.07.01-x86_64.iso",
              "tip": "This ISO file contains Intel SSD/NVMe/Wifi/USB 3.0 drivers and other common used software..."
          },
          {
              "image": "/Windows/cn_windows_10_business_editions_version_1909_updated_march_2020_x64_dvd_0f04bc03.iso",
              "tip": "这个ISO镜像里面集成了Intel主板以及无线 Wifi、SSD、NVMe、USB3.0 等常用驱动程序以及一些常用软件"
          },
          {
              "dir": "/Windows/WinPE",
              "tip": "This directory contains WinPE ISO ..."
          }     
      ]
    }
}

Key	Type	Description
`left`	`STRING`	The X position of the tip
`top`	`STRING`	The Y position of the tip
`color`	`STRING`	The color of the tip. You can use `blue/red/green ...` or RGB format like `#0000ff`
`image`	`STRING`	The full path of the image file. This option supports fuzzy matching, please refer About Path Matching
`dir`	`STRING`	The full path of the directory. Attention: The trailing slash must be removed (For example `/ISO/abc` is right, `/ISO/abc/` is wrong).
`tip`	`STRING`	The tip message Attention: Line breaks are not supported, all the tip characters will be shown in a single line. So please don't set a too long tip message or it will be out of the screen width.

Set menu tip position and color per theme

Different theme has different layout, so maybe we need to set different positions or colors for different themes.
Then you can set menu-tip-left menu-tip-top menu-tip-color in theme.txt as follows:

Multi-Mode

Supported. You can set different configurations for different BIOS mode. Please refer Multi-Mode Option for details.

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