Menu separators

[ACTDevNet]

by russell.jones on 12-21-2007 10:35 AM

I'm sure i'm missing something really trivial but I don't seem to be able to add a separator bar to a menu in ACT!.  Is there an example of doing this anywhere or can someone give me a code snippet?

 Regards,

 Russell
 

[ACTDevNet]

by russell.jones on 01-28-2008 10:31 AM

Just a quick bump.

Has anyone used menu separators in ACT! when adding custom menus?

I've tried looking at the pre-existing menus in ACT! but I can't see any menu items relating to the separators.  I've tried naming things "-" as with winforms but that doesn't seem to work either.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get these to work I'd love to hear from you.

 Thanks

Russell

[rscherrer]

Hi Russell

If you create a new button use the overload which accepts a parameter for adding a separator.

Public Sub New( _
ByVal text As String, _
ByVal tooltip As String, _
ByVal handler As System.EventHandler, _
ByVal cmd As String, _
ByVal lrgImage As System.Drawing.Image, _
ByVal smImage As System.Drawing.Image, _
ByVal displayStyle As Act.UI.Core.CommandBarControl.ItemDisplayStyle, _

ByVal hasSeparator As Boolean,

ByVal strCategory As String)

'Member of: Act.UI.Core.CommandBarButton

Reto

Message Edited by rscherrer on 01-29-2008 11:06 AM

[jason]

Or if you've already constructed it, you can set a property...

                    Act.UI.Core.CommandBarButton nMenuItem = myExistingMenuItem;

                    nMenuItem.HasSeparator = true;

Also look at:

                    ActApp.Explorer.CreateMenuItem(...);
                    ActApp.Explorer.CreateMenuItemUnderAnotherMenuItem(...);
                    ActApp.Explorer.CreateMenuItemUnderAnotherMenuItemWith2Separators(...);
                    ActApp.Explorer.CreateMenuItemWith2Separators(...);

jason

[russell]

Thanks guys, I've used both of those methods and they work perfectly, can't believe I didn't see those constructors / properties. Russell

[sanjay]

Hi All,

I need custom field to show in the Look up Menu. I have put it on the toolbar, but I wants the field to show on the Menu.

How do I achieve this?

If you have any idea pls share with me.

Thanks!

Skumar

[Tdavis]

Add a menu item to this urn act-ui://com.act/application/menu/lookup eg.

AddMenuItem("act-ui://com.act/application/menu/lookup/CustomField1", "Lookup Custom Field 1...", New Act.UI.CommandHandler(AddressOf LookupCustomField)

If you need an example for adding a menu item in general have a look at the act sdk examples.  There should be one called vb_app_simple01 or something similar which contains an example for adding to a menu and contains the rest of the methods for the above.

HTH

Tom

[sanjay]

Hi Tom,

Let me check, Thanks alot !!

Reg,

Skumar