A few tips which might help:
Nobody can learn to use all of PowerPro's features in the first month.
I recommend you leave whole chapters of it for next winter
or until you really need them.
That's not being patronising, it's just a reality for all users.
For example you don't need Menu ShowFile filename.txt or importing
command lists from ini files for what you are currently working on.
It's easier to work with the command lists in your .pcf (shown in
pproconf's Command Lists dialog).
OK, I agree it was a good idea to try those things when it seemed
that using cl.SetIcon wouldn't work for your menu
but actually it will :)
so you don't have to open those complicated chapters. phew.
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When you use cl.SetIcon() [or cl.Setlabel() etc] to change items
in your command lists, the item is temporarily changed from
how it is defined in your .pcf until any one of these happens:
- you close and restart PowerPro
- you click Apply or OK in pproconf
- you change it with another cl.SetIcon() command
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You wrote:
> ... and the HookWindowEvents variable that carries the caption
> never shows a caption for a menu so that's out ...
A menu's not a window so HookWindowEvents won't apply.
Unlike a bar (which is a window) when a menu is actually showing
on screen, it is too late to change any of its text or icons etc.
With a menu, you can change it with cl.SetIcon() before showing
it and that will affect all subsequent showings of the menu,
until one of the 3 resetting things I listed above.
> I have a menu that I want to refresh the icon display each time
> it is triggered so that the icons will reflect a potentially
> changing situation.
If you want a more complicated scripted result from clicking
a bar button, or menu, or hotkey,
it is usually easiest to change the command which used to do
Menu Show mymenu to do only one thing instead: .myscript
and in myscript.powerpro (for example):
If(modem)do
cl.seticon("mymenu","itemID","c:\pathto\ModemOn.ico")
Else
cl.seticon("mymenu","itemID","c:\pathto\ModemOff.ico")
Endif
Menu show mymenu
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I sometimes wonder whether my long explanations are helpful
or just boring and unnecessary.
Maybe the brief answers which other writers make
would be sufficient.
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