Creating a menu for standalone (.exe) form? 2

[Paco75]

Hi,

I am looking to add a menu to my application. It is a standalone form compiled as .exe file. I tried to use the wizard to create menu but it seems to only modify the VFP 9 main menu.

any help is appreciated

thanks

 

[Mike Lewis]

Are you saying you want the menu to appear in the form, as opposed to the outer VFP window?

If so, do the folliwing:

1. Create a menu in the menu designer (check the Help for details about how to do that).

2. Create your form, and make it a top-level form (set its ShowWindow property to 2).

3. In the Init of the form, add this code:

DO MyMenu.MPR WITH THISFORM

where MyMenu.MPR is the file containing the generated menu code.

4. Build and run the application. Don't forget to include MyMenu.MPR in the project.

That should get you started. Come back if you need any more details.

Mike


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[Mike Lewis]

Sorry. I missed out a step.

In the menu designer, you need to go to View / General Options, and tick the Top-Level Form checkbox.

Mike

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[Olaf Doschke]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b4zdys5s(vs.71).aspx

This tells you how to add a menu to a form, which is generated with the menu designer and turned into an mpr via Genmenu (or Generate... menu item while in the menu designer). But that form needs to be a top level form to use this.

You might want to use VFPX oop menu instead:

http://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=OOP Menu Project

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Paco75]

Thanks the only thing i was not doing is the part where we have to generate the .mpr file... now it's all working fine!

 

[Mike Lewis]

the only thing i was not doing is the part where we have to generate the .mpr file

Don't feel bad. That's something we all forget to do from time to time.

Mike

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