Programmatically Activate VFP8 Standard Toolbar

[mikemck7]

Is it possible to redisplay the Standard toolbar from the Command window or from within a program when the toolbar was closed manually and WEXIST("Standard") returns .F. ?

 

[ilyad]

Code by Sergey Berezniker:

IF WEXIST("Standard")
  ACTIVATE WINDOW Standard
ELSE
  KEYBOARD "{ALT+V}{ENTER}{PGDN}{UPARROW}{SPACEBAR}{CTRL+W}"
ENDIF

 

[Mike Lewis]

I don't know any way to do it from within a program if WEXIST() returns .F.

From the command window, you can do it interactively by going to the View menu. If you want a shortcut, you can record a keyboard macro that generates the following keystrokes:

Alt+V
T
S
space
enter

Assign the macro to single function key, and hit that key to toggle to toolbar.

Mike


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[Mike Gagnon]

Ilyad

ACTIVATE WINDOW Standard

Have ever tried this line? I throws an error. Althought the code you suggested looks right, it actually never reaches the line that gives an error because this line is never true

IF WEXIST("Standard")

Mike Gagnon

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[ilyad]

Yes, the code works fine for me. If the standard toolbar is hidden, this code shows the toolbar. If it was closed, the else condition fires.

 

[ilyad]

This works fine for English version of VFP.

 

[mikemck7]

I had no problem using the code in my program except that when I tried docking or undocking the Standard window by issuing:

DOCK WINDOW Standard POSITION ?

within the same IF/ENDIF block, I get the "Window 'STANDARD' has not been defined" error.

I believe this to be a keyboard buffering issue. So as a work-around I placed the DOCK WINDOW command in its own IF/ENDIF block and that seemed to take care of it.

Thanks Ilyad and Mike L. for your suggestions.

Mike M.