Menu Shortcut?
I am still relatively new to VB and I have a question regarding Menus.
Currently, I am working on an application that has about 20 Forms and I want to use the same Menu for each Form. I've done about three and have realized that this will set me at least a week back on my project because it is a fairly detailed Menu.
Please tell me there's an easy way to use the same Menu in every form without manually entering everything!
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The "File" menu in a web browser project has a sub-menu "New" named mnuNew. "New" also has a sub-menu that shows 2 options - "Window" named mnuNewWindow & "Message" named mnuNewMsg. Clicking "Window", as usual, opens a new instance of the browser & clicking "Message" opens the "New Message" window of the default mail client for the user to send a mail. Ctrl+N has been assigned as the shortcut key for "Window" & Ctrl+M has been assigned as the shortcut key for "Message" in the menu editor in the VB IDE (somewhat similar to the File--->New menu in IE).
Now what I find is if I press Ctrl+N on the keyboard, strangely my system's C: drive opens up (C: & not any other drive maybe because of the fact that the project resides in C:) but there's no such problem when Ctrl+M is pressed on the keyboard.
I changed the shortcut key of "Window" to, say, Ctrl+Q. Now when I press Ctrl+Q on the keyboard, then a new browser window opens up. I even tried other shortcut combinations & all of them open a new browser window. The problem is only with Ctrl+N.
What's causing this problem? How do I overcome it?
Of course, I can assign any other shortcut to "Window" but since Ctrl+N has been the universally accepted key combination to open a new instance of an app, I did like to adhere to this combination.
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Hi,
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http://www.altocircuito.andremedeiro...stuff/menu.JPG
Can you tell me what is wrong? because for some reason, the key combos don't work :S it does nothing
P.S: if you click on them normally using the mouse they do work as they all have commands
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I have a tabbed form with tabs showing contact and address information respectively. There's a menu for each of the tabs which I enable/disable according to which tab is selected. The menus both contain all the same actions as each other.
Trouble is, when I come to assign shortcut keys I want to assign the same keys to both menus - since all the actions are the same and only one menu can be enabled at a time I think this would be fairly instictive for the user- but I can't do that at design time because the editor will only let me assign a given shortcut key once.
So is there a way I could reassign the shortcut keys when the user clicks between tabs? Or any other suggestions?
nb (to pre-empt an unwanted suggestion) I don't want to merge the menus into one because I think the user might find that confusing. Having both menus there lets them know they can act on either contact or address info and teh fact they've dropped down that menu should give them the confidence they're acting on what they think they are.
Any suggestions?
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Hi all,
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I have a vb6 app which contains menus setup in design mode. I may, at certain
points, require the existing menu to be sub-classed for different functionallity.
Sub-classing the menu and giving the appearance of the old menu (same caption
and position) is no problem. But if the old menu has a shortcut key associated
with it, and i subclass, then the user presses the shortcut combination,
the OLD menu code is called!! How do i get the existing shortcut key for
a menu and assign it to my subclassed menu?
Menu Shortcut Keys
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points, require the existing menu to be sub-classed for different functionallity.
Sub-classing the menu and giving the appearance of the old menu (same caption
and position) is no problem. But if the old menu has a shortcut key associated
with it, and i subclass, then the user presses the shortcut combination,
the OLD menu code is called!! How do i get the existing shortcut key for
a menu and assign it to my subclassed menu?
Assining 2 Shortcut Keys To The Same Menu
Greetings all!
Just want to know how could I assing 2 shortcut keys to the same menu item.
I tought about putting some code in the "KeyDown" event, but I am using MDIForms and this event is not there in the main MDIForm.
I also subclass the main MDIForm and try to catch the WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP message, but nothing happens.
Please help me on this.
Thank you and have a nice day!
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I have recently purchased a new development computer with Windows XP. My old application, developed in VB6, no longer displays the underlined shortcut character, as created in the Menu Editor. In design mode, it is still there, but doesn't display at runtime. I've installed Windows XP SP1a and upgraded VB to SP5, but to no avail. Any ideas?
Right-click Shortcut Menu Has Vanished
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Originally Posted by Mike_R
Yeah, this is correct, at least by my testing, I agree.
I've seen members have this happen to them though: play around with the toolbars and then "Oops!". Perhaps their Workbook_BeforeClose() event failed to fire for some reason?? I really can't say. It does not make a lot of sense to me, but I'm pretty sure I've heard of this. (Didn't this happen to Gunslinger at one time... I don't remember for sure.)
The point is that this is a possibility worth considering. Once this happened to Gunslinger (or whomever it was) it was really a bear to get up and running again as the entire Excel.xlb was now saved in a really bad state. Not-unfixable, mind you, but if this happens to a Client their Excel system really will be paralyzed until you can walk them through a solution...
But, as you say, Greychild, this "crash" situation should be relatively hard to accomplish I think.
Just found this old thread during a search, and thought i'd add some info
yes it was me that had this happen, and he's right its a pain to recover from, now, what i did was disable each menu individually then re-enable them at close one at a time, so if it crashed, which it did once, it would re-enable them by opening and closing the workbook again, this doesnt help much with custom stuff however.
so what i did was come at it from a different angle, and before my workbook opens fully, it does a system sweep for the xlb file, it then moves it and then disables the menus, then on close i return the xlb file, this way if it screws up, then excel will re-create the xlb file automatically with the default m$ menus and settings, thus never leaving you with no menus.
the time my early workbook crashed (system power twitch caused a blue screen ) the user reported "odd looking excel" to the tech section, who spent nearly 10 hours over 2 days trying to get it fixed, and all they managed was one little custom menu (which was quite impressive actually!) i heard through a friend of this and went to see them, told then the menus were all disabled thats why he couldnt find them, then fixed it in about 30 seconds, dam was he ****ed !!
Right-click Shortcut Menu Has Vanished
Shortly after testing some VBA code, I discovered I have lost the right-click shortcut menus in Excel 2003.
The VBA code I was testing:
(1) looped thru all my CommandBars [For Each objCBar in CommandBars],
(a) writing the Name, NameLocal, Enabled and Visible property
values of each CommandBar to a worksheet (facilitating
restoration, I had hoped), and then
(b) set each CommandBar's Enabled property = False;
(2) set four ActiveWindow properties = False:
.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar,
.DisplayVerticalScrollBar,
.DisplayHeadings,
.DisplayWorkbookTabs;
(3) set two Application properties = False:
.DisplayFormulaBar,
.DisplayStatusBar;
(4) and finally set the Application.DisplayFullScreen property = True.
Satisfied with the results (examined "during" a breakpoint), I ran the remaining code which, presumably, restored the "original" settings.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Probably obvious is that I want the shortcut menus back, but if you can diagnose the pathology as well, I'd be very grateful!
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Can anybody help me. My problem is :
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Let me explain my prob. in detail....
I have a shortcut menu on a form. On click event of a menu item I have opened a Modal form. Now the event procedure of the menu item is not completed yet.
Now, on the form (which I had opened from the popup menu) I want to show a popup menu on right click of a grid, but that menu is not showing...
If this info is not wnough then I can send it in more details...
thanks in advance...
regards
Mohit Rohella
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C:WINNTProfilesglbertagStart MenuProgramsmyprogramgo.lnk
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&Edit
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--&Cut
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Hi,
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2) I tried using SendKeys("{CAPSLOCK}") to generate the CapsLock press event on a form (it had a text box on it). It didn't work, and I couldn't generate NumLock press either. Can someone tell me how to send the CapsLock/NumLock Key-press to a form?
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hi,
How to pin the shortcut of my application to right-click(popup) menu.Similar to winzip
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what are the changes to done to setup.lst file.
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