#VISUAL QUICKMENU 7 CODE#

That’s right-the term “bar” has two different meanings in this context. Windows menus are built out of four types of components: menu bars, pads, popups and bars. Coincidentally, exactly the kind the Menu Designer lets you create.

So what’s left? Component-style, Windows-type menus. They’re all quirky and tedious to create and, most important, none of them fully conforms to the Windows interface standard. So what kinds of menus can you build, anyway? The antique varieties come in three flavors: Lotus-style lightbar menus, individual (somewhat ugly) menu popups, and an array-based precursor to Windows-type menus.

So, our first piece of advice is: Don’t write menu code. With the addition of Andrew Ross MacNeill’s GenMenuX, there’s not much we can’t do with generated menus.

#VISUAL QUICKMENU 7 CODE#

We build our menus using the Menu Designer and let it generate all the code we need. However, other than for testing purposes, we haven’t actually written a menu command in years. The number of menu commands in the language is staggering. Each time a new type of menu became common, the next version of FoxBase/FoxPro included it. Why this embarrassment of riches? Historical reasons, of course. MenusįoxPro has four-count ‘em, four-different kinds of menus, not including those you might hand-build with a form (like putting up a series of buttons with choices). Tells you the inside scoop on every command, function, property, event and method of Visual FoxPro. An irreverent look at how Visual FoxPro really works.

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