Menu

[lastimosa]

I tried many ways to activate a menu I created on a form. But none of them works. How to do this.

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

lastimosa

Menus conventionally run in _SCREEN, not specifically in a form, although that's also possible.

Assuming you have a main.prg, you normally run the menu before calling your main form.

DO mainmenu.mpr
DO FORM mainform NAME oMainForm LINKED
READ EVENTS
HTH

Chris

 

[lastimosa]

Chris

I just tried the code that you gave me, but its still wont work. The prompt are displayed but it is not on the form I created.

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

lastimosa

'Menus conventionally run in _SCREEN, not specifically in a form'

The menu will not show within a individual form, unless it's a top-level form and you have specifically set it up that way.

In another thread you commented that you were unable to generate a menu - I assume you have resolved this and now have a menu with the extention .mpr.

If your menu is now the main menu, that is the correct behaviour.

If you want your menu to contained within a form, then you need to make the form a top-level form and attach the menu to the form.

There's no point in persuing that until you have a menu showing in _SCREEN.

If you browse through the FAQs, I believe there is a FAQ that covers menus in top-level forms. HTH

Chris

 

[danceman]

as mention above, make the form top level

then in the init of the form

do mymenu.mpr with this, .t. Attitude is Everything

 

[Mike Gagnon]

To complete danceman's suggestion, the menu itself has to be a top-level menu.

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

lastimosa

If you really want to go the distance with top-level forms you can also get a toolbar to run underneath the top-level form's menu.

The content of the menu/toolbar should be specific to the top-level form and will give the top-level form the look and feel of a mini-application attached to your main application.

What I would suggest is that you consider the top-level form as secondary to your other forms and make sure you have a menu and toolbar running in _SCREEN.

You can also consider _SCREEN to be a top-level form which contains child forms.

If you add a .Resize() and a .Moved() method to _SCREEN, then you can resize _SCREEN by resizing a child form of _SCREEN.

Alternatively, you can resize a child form(s) of _SCREEN by resizing _SCREEN.

The .Moved() method can save _SCREEN's coordinates for next time the application is run.

HTH

Chris

 

[lastimosa]

Thank you very much for your reply. I tried it already yesterday and it works. Before I posted a question I'd browsed already the FAQ's but I never found an answer.

Once again thank you for your unselfish work.