Stephen, Thanks for the response about the background of the menu bar. I have created a menuing system similar to the Menu Bar and it is quite involved but looks great.
It's unfortunate that the menu bar cannot be manipulated the way the other menuing options can. The menu bar is a dropdown menu plus it has sub-menus. It could be a great alternative to the Group Bar. Drop-down menu buttons just don't cut it. With each new iteration of Rbase, I had hoped something would be done about the functionality of the Menu Bar. Back to the drawing board. Bill Eyring -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Markson Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 1:06 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Property Commands for Menu Bar Hi Bill, I have spent quite a bit of time working on this issue and consulting with RBTI on it. The bottom line is you can't control most properties of the menu bar because they are controlled by Windows. Here is the official final response from RBTI (November 2012). R:Base can control the VISIBLE property in addition to the other ones mentioned in the last paragraph: "A Menu Bar is located within the non-client area of a window, and is painted by the Windows operating system. This is why the Menu Bar is not displayed when in the R:BASE Form Designer, and can only be seen when running the form. "Because of this, there is not a method available to change the height or text font of the Menu Bar within R:BASE. "Outside of R:BASE, the operating system settings can be used to alter the Menu Bar properties, but this would alter the display of all Menu Bars throughout the entire operating system and for any Windows program that is opened. "The properties that can be controlled by R:BASE include CAPTION, ENABLED, and HINT. These are the same properties which are available to .RBA Application File, which also use a Menu Bar control painted by the Windows operating system." Regards, Stephen Markson The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada 416.979.2431 x251 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Eyring Sent: April-25-13 8:44 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Property Commands for Menu Bar I am playing around with the menu bar in form designer using the latest rb Extreme 64 version. For each menu main item and sub-menu item one can assign a component id. I have tried all of these property commands with my assigned component id's and can't get them to work. PROPERTY <Component ID> FOCUSCOLOR 'Value' PROPERTY <Component ID> FONT_BOLD 'TRUE' PROPERTY <Component ID> FONT_COLOR 'Value' PROPERTY <Component ID> FONT_NAME 'FONT_NAME' PROPERTY <Component ID> FONT_SIZE 'nnn' PROPERTY <Component ID> MENUBACKGROUNDCOLOR 'value' PROPERTY <Component ID> MENUFONTCOLOR 'value' PROPERTY <Component ID> MENUFONTSIZE 'nnn' PROPERTY <Component ID> THEMEAWARE 'TRUE' Can anyone give me some blues clues to get them to work ? The default menu bar is kind of dull. Thanks, Bill Eyring Lamp Software, Inc.
