>>Is it possible to use the Office CommandBars in a VFP application? I see plenty of VB and Access examples, and I assume that it can also be done in VFP. Is this the wrong assumption?
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>>Regards,
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>>J Miller
>In VFP7 using mouseenter, mouseleave events and control class it is very easy to make very similar objects
>Best wishes, Vladimir


Hi Vladimir,

Thanks. Maybe I should have been more specific in what I am looking for. I had understood that the standard system menu in products like Outlook is actually a CommandBar. Being that you can set the position of the CommandBar using the Left and Top properties, this implied that maybe a system menu can exist elsewhere besides docked at the top of a top level form.

What I am trying to do is to create a menu, but have it exist not at the top of the screen, but about 30 pixels down from the title bar. Why you ask? We are using skins on our forms, and the container it creates occupies about this much space at the top of the form. If you use a standard .mnx file, the menu is docked at the top and the skins container is underneath it - exactly the opposite of what is needed.

I've tried many different methods to create a floatable menu using containers, command buttons, and popups, but the truth of the matter is that you cannot replicate the functionality of a Windows menu with a DEFINE POPUP command. This is what caused me to have interest in CommandBars. Perhaps they would help solve my problem.

Again, thanks for the reply.

J Miller