Just figured out how to get the Edit menu on the dialogue working. SET MENU BAR (“Edit”) in the on load phase does the trick.
The inability to copy in a combo box remains a problem. Will wait a few minutes before calling tech support. John > On Dec 12, 2017, at 9:41 AM, John Baughman via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > 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] > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** John Baughman Kailua, Hawaii (808) 262-0328 [email protected] ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
