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Modal Form and Menu
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21/03/2005 11:31:25
 
 
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21/03/2005 10:36:38
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Menus & Menu designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
00997839
Message ID:
00997858
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>I have a modeless form which calls a modal form. In the init of the modal form I haved:
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>PUSH MENU _sysmenu
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>The form contains a pageframe with 4 pages. All controls on the pages are readonly = .T. and enabled = .F. except for the first control on each page which is a listbox. It is enabled = .T. and when the user clicks on it or presses enter another display only modal form is displayed. The form is for display of information only. There is a command button on the bottom of the form (not on the pageframe or pages) which closes the form.
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>I am trying to enable a menu which is displayed while the modal form is active. I haved tried putting:
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>Do viewmenu.mpr
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>in the form's gotfocus, the first control on each page's gotfocus, the command button's gotfocus, etc. In all cases, the menu displays but all items are disabled. Finally I added another command button named cmdviewmenu on the form and in its click I put:
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>Do viewmenu.mpr
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>which works when the form is displayed and the user clicks on it. If I process the click from the init of the form though, the menu displays disabled. The menu is only enabled if I wait for the form to display, the listbox on page1 to get focus and then the user clicks on the cmdviewmenu button.
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>However, I want the menu to be enabled automatically and I do not want the user to have to click on any button to enable the menu.
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>Any ideas?

Tracy,

Modal forms are the only active form at the moment, hence they disable the menu so you cannot start another form
Gregory
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