Subject Re: Help with dbase 11 menus
From Andy Taylor <andy.taylor@which.net>
Date Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:57:20 -0400
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started
Attachment(s) MdiMenuTest.wfm

Yiannis,

If you add a menu to the attached mdi form you will see it working as expected.

The key elements of the work-around to this bug are:

   form.onLeftMouseDown = {;form.checkMenu()}
   form.onMouseOver = {;form.onMenu=false}

   function onOpen
      store false to form.menuFlag, form.onMenu
      form.root.onInitMenu = {;store true to form.menuFlag, form.onMenu}
      return

   function checkMenu
      if form.menuFlag and not form.onMenu
         keyboard("{Esc}"); form.menuFlag = false
      endif
      return      

   Any non menu objects that get actioned while the drop-down menu is active also need to use checkMenu()
      on this form that is PUSHBUTTON1 which has:
      onClick = {;form.checkMenu();this.text="Clicked"}

I hope it helps....
Andy

> Hi Andy,
 >
> Thanks for your response.
 > Close button does not respond as a result of the problem that a drop-down menu does not close.
 > At this moment I am with a pC that does not have dbase 11 installed but if I am not mistaken the popup closes if I click on the top of the form.
 >
> If you can a workaround that would be great.
 > I would appreciate it if you can see my other post in the Programming section regarding icon formats with dbase 11.
 >
> regards
 >
> Yiannis
 >
> Andy Taylor Wrote:
 >
> > Yiannis,
 > >
> > I assume you mean that you cannot close "a drop-down" menu rather than "a popup" as you appear to be using normal menus in the video.
 > >
> > I see this behaviour in dBASE 11.3 only when form.mdi is set to false. I suggest you report it as a bug, at the moment without a workaround
 > >  as I can't see an easy way to get it working properly... I may find time to look at this later... perhaps using onInitMenu to set custom "active" flags.
 > >  The menus do get closed properly if the user clicks again on the relevant menu header.
 > >
> > As for the close button I have no idea why yours is not working... it works on my forms irrespective of the mdi setting.  Is there specific code attached
 > >  to your onClose or canClose methods which is stopping the code?
 > >
> > Andy
 > >
> > > Hi all,
 > > >
> > > I am attching 2 videos.
 > > > Video dbase262 shows the main menu of my application with dbase plus 2.62
 > > > Video dbase11 shows the same main menu (nothing changed in code) with dbase 11.
 > > >
> > > Except of the distorted icons I noticed that with dbase11 I can not close a popoup by clicking somewhere on the form (as in 2.62) and also I clicking on the close button is not working.
 > > >
> > > I would appreciate some help on the above issues.
 > > >
> > > Regards
 > > >
> > > Yiannis