Modifying the Window menu

[Tim Marshall]

I'm trying to have a menu item in a custom menu that serves the same
purpose as the standard Windows built in menu with respect to the list
of forms that are open. However, I don't want to let the users have
access to menu items such as, for example:

Hide - someone will hide the main menu form by accident when poking
about and panic.

Unhide - I have one major form with hundreds of bizarre text boxes which
stores setings on various forms, criteria chosen on other forms, etc. I
definitely don't want to give users a heart attack if they accidentally
unhide this.

I can bring a copy of the Windows menu (holding ctrl key and dragging it
from the main built in menu bar or be dragging it from the commands tab
of the custom9ize dialog, but whenever I modify this, the changes appear
on the main Access menu bar. Using a couple of commands like (where
position 7 is the position of the windows menu on custom menu mnuC):

commandbars("mnuC").Controls(7).controls(8).visibl e = false

Results in the same thing, ie, the menu item in the windows menu being
invisible in all further instances of Access opened.

Any suggestions? What I'm looking for is a menu that lists all open,
visible, non-dialog forms that can be used to chage the focus to the
forms listed.

TIA
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Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
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/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Whatcha doin?" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me

[MGFoster]

Tim Marshall wrote:

I'm trying to have a menu item in a custom menu that serves the same
purpose as the standard Windows built in menu with respect to the list
of forms that are open. However, I don't want to let the users have
access to menu items such as, for example:

Hide - someone will hide the main menu form by accident when poking
about and panic.

Unhide - I have one major form with hundreds of bizarre text boxes which
stores setings on various forms, criteria chosen on other forms, etc. I
definitely don't want to give users a heart attack if they accidentally
unhide this.

I can bring a copy of the Windows menu (holding ctrl key and dragging it
from the main built in menu bar or be dragging it from the commands tab
of the custom9ize dialog, but whenever I modify this, the changes appear
on the main Access menu bar. Using a couple of commands like (where
position 7 is the position of the windows menu on custom menu mnuC):

commandbars("mnuC").Controls(7).controls(8).visibl e = false

Results in the same thing, ie, the menu item in the windows menu being
invisible in all further instances of Access opened.

Any suggestions? What I'm looking for is a menu that lists all open,
visible, non-dialog forms that can be used to chage the focus to the
forms listed.

TIA

You'll have to make your own menu bar w/ a Windows item and only the sub
menu items you want. Then attach that menu bar to all visible forms.
When the application closes, Access' menu bar should reappear.

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MGFoster:::mgf00 <at> earthlink <decimal-point> net
Oakland, CA (USA)

[Tim Marshall]

MGFoster wrote:

You'll have to make your own menu bar w/ a Windows item and only the sub
menu items you want. Then attach that menu bar to all visible forms.
When the application closes, Access' menu bar should reappear.

That's the unfortunate thing - I'm doing this, but for the sub menu item
that shows open forms, I can't seem to find it anywhere on either the
customise dialog or the actual built-in windows menu when I'm in
customize menus mode...
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Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/
^o<
/#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake
/^^ "Whatcha doin?" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - Me