Remove Favourites from Properties Window

[alvechurchdata]

In VFP 9 it's easy to add properties to "Favourites" in the Properties Window. Is there any way of removing them. Sometimes I've managed to remove one by resetting _MemberData to default but I would hope that there's a more reliable way

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[alvechurchdata]

Another kludge is to edit the FoxCode table, look for entries of type "E" and remove "favorites='true'" from the XML in the Tips field.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[DougHennig]

Hi Geoff.

You can edit the contents of _MemberData and remove or edit the entry for the PEM you don't want in Favorites. Look for an XML node that starts with:

<memberdata name="somename"

and remove everything up to the next "/>". Alternatively, remove the:

favorites="True"

attribute from the node.

Doug

 

[alvechurchdata]

Thanks Doug. I was afraid that I was missing some really easy way of doing it.

My own mess was made worse by the fact that this was a custom button with its own preferences from its class hierarchy but was also inheriting global settings and settings from the container. It took me a little time to track them all down and I was longing to see a "Remove from favourites" option on the menu.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[TamarGranor]

You can also use the MemberData Editor.

Tamar

 

[alvechurchdata]

It was the Hierarchy button one the MemberData Editor that lead me to the global setting in FoxCode.

Which leads to a usability question about the Editor interface; why do I have to tick the "Favorites" tick box and then select "False" from a combo in order to remove the entry? Both controls have exactly the same tooltip: "Specifies whether this member appears on the Favorites tab of the Properties window". Is there some situation where the combo gets extended to include a third option?

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[DougHennig]

Hi Geoff.

>why do I have to tick the "Favorites" tick box and then select "False" from a combo in order to remove the entry?

Turning on the checkbox means that the MemberData Editor will write the value in the combobox to _MemberData; with the checkbox turned off, it doesn't. This is important because a parent class may define a value for Favorites and then in a subclass, the checkbox allows you to decide whether to override the parent value or not.

Doug

 

[alvechurchdata]

Turning on the checkbox means that the MemberData Editor will write the value in the combobox to _MemberData

That sounds quite sensible in hindsight but it looked very weird when I first hit it.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk