Hello People.
>
>Here is the trick behind the menus with the heading.
>
>It's a simple trick cos there is no heading !
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>Read on ...
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>Here is what the Define Bar is all about !
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>DEFINE BAR nMenuItemNumber1 | SystemItemName
>OF MenuName PROMPT cMenuItemText
>[BEFORE nMenuItemNumber2 | AFTER nMenuItemNumber3]
>[FONT cFontName [, nFontSize]]
>[STYLE cFontStyle]
>[KEY KeyLabel [, cKeyText]]
>[MARK cMarkCharacter]
>[MESSAGE cMessageText]
>[SKIP [FOR lExpression]]
>[COLOR SCHEME nSchemeNumber
>| COLOR ColorPairList]
>
>Of this, I have used just 2 directives ....
>FONT cFontName [, nFontSize] and COLOR ColorPairList
>
>Ok here's the technique.
>
>Create a shortcut menu and add to it the following prompts ..
>As it is including inverted commas !
>( use my included Sample since wordwrap may not show the prompts properly)
>
>1 > " + "Your Headding" color
>,rgb(0,0,0,255,255,255),,,,rgb(0,0,0,255,255,255)
>font "tahoma" style "B
>2 > \-
>3 > Option 1
>4 > Option 2
>
>Note the 1st Prompt is missing a closing inverted comma .. let
>it be !
>
>Ok Now how and y it works ..
>
>The promp field in the menu designer accepts the above prompts.
>The Menu Generator program intercepts these without any
>processing so in the final .mpr file they end up as follows ...
>
>DEFINE BAR 1 OF shortcut PROMPT "" + "Your
>Headding" color ,rgb(0,0,0,255,255,255),,,,rgb(0,0,0,255,255,255)
>font "tahoma" style "B"
>
>Also note the formating .
>
>The 2 rgb values set in the color. They are for the foreground
>and background color of the normal prompt and the same pair for
>the highlighted prompt. So when the User moves the mouse over the
>heading prompt, he wont see any changes as both the highlight and
>normal colors are the same. It creates an illusion of a heading !
>
>This is a very very clumsy way of defining yor prompts in the
>menu designer !
>
>A better sugestion would be to use a Public domain Menu Generator
>called GenMenuX which is a much advanced menu
>generator than the normal VFP generator.
>
>I am including a link to a sample that should work with the
>normal VFP menu generator.
>
>http://www14.brinkster.com/hitenkm/HeadMenu.zip
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>Here is a screenshot of that menu
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>http://www14.brinkster.com/hitenkm/HeadMenu.gif
>
>Please dont make any
>damage claims over this article, as it is just a trick on making
>your apps more user friendly.
>Also I assume no responsability for any damage caused by the use
>of this article.
>
>And thanx to all you people who lead me to write this article !
>
>Please direct all your e-mails to
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>kment_1@hotmail.com
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