What has been suggested is that after login, you change the enable/disable or Visible/Invisible state based on the role of whom ever logged in. Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh, sorry. > > This is a retail application. > Different user roles access the software simultaneously. > Eg a supervisor may open the cash dawer for a clerk. > > Actions cannot be disabled, they may be used by an appropriate role. > Or they may require this one-time authentication which I now seek to add. > > Menu items are password protected rather than disabled. > > This is a retrofit job. I am looking to intercept WM_COMMAND in > Application.OnMessage and wondering how to map any part of that windows > message back into an instance of TMenuItem. > > > > >> Or, if you prefer, you could hide them: Visible:=False; >> >> Glenn Lawler >> www.incodesystems.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Smith David G (Finance) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:02 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [delphi-en] How to intercept all menu events? >> >> Why not just disable the menu items the user is not permitted to use -- >> set the Enabled property to False? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:15 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [delphi-en] How to intercept all menu events? >> >> >> Existing D5 application now needs security. Most of "security" involves >> protecting access to menu items. >> >> I would like to implement this without bloating the code, adding lines >> for every menu OnClick handler. >> >> There is already an Application.OnMessage handler in the code. I thought >> I might add a handler for WM_COMMAND, intercepting menu clicks at that >> point. Yet nothing in the TMsg structure seems to point me back to a >> specific menu item. >> >> I see all menu items have automagically been assigned CMD ids, yet these >> are not available in the data received by Application.OnMessage. >> >> What do I not understand, or is there a better way to intercept all menu >> clicks for an existing application...? >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ > To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links > > > > > >
