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Changing Custom Menus and Toolbars at Runtime

Description

At runtime, the custom drop-down and right click menus or toolbars for any of the form modes ( View, Query by Form, and Find by Form ), or for a browse can be dynamically changed by setting the appropriate form or object property. For example, to change the drop down menu for a form called "Customers" to "menu2", you would execute the following Xbasic command:

:Customers.drop_down_menu = "menu2"

The table below lists the various properties that you can set to control the menus and toolbars for form and browse windows.

• .DROP_DOWN_MENU

  Main menu for the window when in View mode.

• .FIND_BY_FORM_DROP_DOWN_MENU

  Main menu for Find by Form mode.

• .FIND_BY_FORM_RIGHT_CLICK_MENU

  Right click menu in Find by Form mode.

• .FIND_BY_FORM_TOOLBAR

  Toolbar for Find by Form mode.

• .QUERY_BY_FORM_DROP_DOWN_MENU

  Main menu for Query by Form mode.

• .QUERY_BY_FORM_RIGHT_CLICK_MENU

  Right click menu for Query by Form mode

• .QUERY_BY_FORM_TOOLBAR

  Toolbar for Query by Form mode

• .RIGHT_CLICK_MENU

  Right click menu for the form or browse window.

• .TOOLBAR

  Toolbar for the form or browse window.

See Also

• Form Menu_and_Toolbar_Properties
• How to Design a Custom Menu
• Menu Capabilities
• Custom Menus for Various Forms Modes
• Methods for Controlling Menus at Runtime