John,
to get the edit menu working (without buttons)
make sure the form properties are set correctly:
Associated Menu Bar: <menu>
Active Menu Bar : ON
Chip
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:41:25 -1000, John Baughman via 4D_Tech wrote:
> I am trying to get the edit commands working in a dialog. To figure
> how best to do it I created a test form with a combo box and a text
> variable. Failing to get an Edit Menu working (see below), I put
> invisible buttons on the form for cut, copy, and paste with the
> respective standard actions enabled and with the proper shortcuts and
> opened it with...
>
> Open form window("Testing")
> DIALOG("Testing")
>
> The variable works fine, but the combo box works for all the edit
> actions except Copy.
>
> Could somebody test and confirm this as a bug?
>
> ―――― Edit Menu…
>
> I really need to get the editing commands working in a combo box on a
> real production form and thought an Edit menu is the proper way to
> go. I have relied for so many years on Foundation handling my menus
> that I am at a loss to figure out how to create and enable any menus
> on my own.
>
> As of now the production dialog opens with just the 4D and Help
> menu. I have the dialog associated menu set per Foundation
> documentation, select Foundation Shell Menu, check Active, deselect
> Foundation Shell Menu. This makes it so that the foundation shell
> menu is not disabled when closing the dialog.
>
> I thought it would be best to have an Edit menu active on the form.
> I attempted to do just that and got an Edit menu to display but the
> edit menu items remain greyed out when the cursor is in an editable
> text object, combo box or variable.
>
> Any help getting an edit menu in a Dialog to work would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> John Baughman
> Kailua, Hawaii
> (808) 262-0328
> [email protected]
>
>
>
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