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19/06/1997 08:06:47
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Title:
Re: Menus
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00036778
Message ID:
00036931
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45
>>>>>>Ok, for some reason I am coming up with a blank here. I have an application with the main screen being a top-level form. The other screens that appear are modeless forms set to appear 'in top-level form'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My problem is that I cannot attach a menu to these modeless forms. I put the statement 'Do mymenu.mpr WITH THIS' in the Init method of the forms but no menu. What the #$%@ am I doing wrong here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>This is by design, isn't it? I'm under the impression that this can only be done with top-levels -- at least that's what the documentation indicates...
>>>>
>>>>This may be true. I have been going through any documentation I can find and not of it seems very clear. So, if I understand correctly, I will have to change all of my forms to appear 'in screen' if I want them to have a menu?
>>>
>>>Or maybe you can make them all top-level? (I haven't actually tried this...)
>>
>>All top-level forms appear on the windows taskbar. This strategy has the potential to create quite a mess. Maybe a toolbar is a better idea than a menu.
>
>I wouldn't have a problem with using toolbars except that I am trying to implement the 'print screen' routine that showed up here. In order for this to work I need the Edit portion of the menu to be active. What a drag. I would rather use the SDI but I guess I'll have to look at changing all the forms. Thanks for everyone's replys.
>
>George


George,

I did not see the mentioned thread about 'print screen', but check out PC magazine's download area for a utilty called "Print Now". It makes the Print Screen key work like users expect it to (send output to the printer). Its written in C.

Valerie
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