parameters in menus?

[Dave Price]

good morning!

i am having a hard time figuring out how to pass parameters (args) to
programs frfom a blackbox menu entry.

things like:
   [exec] (aterm) {aterm --background #4682b4 -fn
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 -title
$HOSTNAME -geometry 80x25}

or:

[exec] (edit menu) {vi ~/.blackbox/menu}

do not seem to work ... the programs run, but as if they received no
arguments ... these commands both work great as bash aliases though.

any hints?

aloha,
dave