Adding a tool bar to a top level form 1

[SnyAc]

I'm experimenting with using a tool bar and I can't seem to add one to a top level form. Are tool bars only available at the _screen level?

Any advice is always appreciated.....


Andy Snyder
SnyAc Software Services

http://www.snysoft.com

 

[Mike Lewis]

Andy,

If you think about it, you'll see that a toolbar is redundant in a top-level form. The point about toolbars (at least, in VFP) is that they are independent of forms. They either float on top of all the forms, or are docked to the outer window.

If you simply want a row of buttons at the top of the form, why not just place them there directly?

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Andy

Add a new property to your form '.oToolbar' with value of .NULL.

In the .Activate() event of your top-level form put

[COLOR=blue]WITH THISFORM
[tab]IF ISNULL(.oToolbar)
[tab][tab].oToolbar = CREATEOBJECT([tbrMyToolBar])
[tab][tab].oToolbar.Dock(0,0,0)
[tab][tab].oToolbar.Show()
[tab]ENDI
ENDW[/color]

This assumes you have already created your tbrMyToolBar class and is in a classlib included in your app.

You may need to modify the above code snippit to suit your app.

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Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk

 

[SnyAc]

Mike... I understand your point about just putting a row of buttons where I want them.... and that's what I'm doing right now. I am exploring the ability to allow the user to dock this row of buttons on any edge of the top level form (which is why I was thinking about a toolbar).

Chris, thanks for your solution. I'll see if I can implement it in a small testbed app....

Andy Snyder
SnyAc Software Services

http://www.snysoft.com

 

[SnyAc]

Chris... thanks again for your solution... worked perfectly.


Andy Snyder
SnyAc Software Services

http://www.snysoft.com

 

[TamarGranor]

Mike - I get your point, but what if the top-level form is your app's main window. Then, you want toolbars there.

Tamar

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

Andy

Thanks for the star - I omitted to mention that the value of the .ShowWindow property of the top-level form's toolbar needs to be 1.

Top-level forms c/w menu and toolbar(s) can enhance and extend functionality without impacting on the structure of a conventional application, and, as Tamar has pointed out, they can also become the application' main window.

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Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk

 

[Mike Lewis]

Andy and Tamar,

OK, I accept the fact that you might want a toolbar with a top-level form. It just doesn't feel right to me. But I've never tried it, so maybe it does makes sense.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk