Where are my menus?

I'm working with a VB6 app (very old) with a lot of menus, many of which are quite complex. When the main window is displayed, the menu isn't visible. If I press the accellerator key, the menus do pop-up on the window title bar, but that's not exactly helpful.

 

Is there a setting I'm missing to force the display of the menus? So far, this is the only (but significant) barrier to purchasing this tool.

 

Thnks

Steve

Hello,

Have to work wit MDI menus too if you don't have some special code.  Can you try to reproduce it with new MDI project ?

only for the records!

 

I took the supplied sample VB6 app and added a standard menu. That, obviously, didn't appear on the skinned app. Ok, that was expected.

 

I then dropped a CommandBar control on the form and ran again. The menu appeared, but was hidden behind the existing controls, from which I took it that I had to leave a gap at the top of the form for the menu to be painted.  Once I added a gap, I got the menu and it functioned. Progress!

 

Next, I added a toolbar (my 'real' app is a  mixture of menus and toolbars). I actually added a CommandBarFrame and aligned it to the top of the form. When I ran the program, the menu was gone again. It appears that the CommandBarFrame hides the menu.

 

I tried deleting the CommandBar control and placing a new one on top of the frame I had added, but that did nothing to help.

 

No doubts this is down to my inexperience, but I see no way to get the existing menu to co-exist with the toolbars.

 

Steve

 

P.S. SkinCrafter did a wonderful job with my menus - it was the rest of the app it failed miserably with. The CodeJock control is by far the best I've tried. I just don't understand why it's let down by menu handling.

 

My MDI main form currently contains five (optional) toolbars. If I understand what you're saying, in order to get menus with the SkinFramework, I need to use the CommandBar control to get a menu and, if I use a CommandBar to get the menu, I need to re-define the five toolbars too in order to make them compatible with the menu.

 

Darn! (That's not what I was actually thinking).

 

Steve

 

I faced this problem and I decided to stop using this skin control.

I spent a lot of time to solve this problem.

 

Dear Support group,  I think you must repair this problem.

not to you This problem to wast our time.

 

Thank you

 

 

I'm using VS2005 coding in VB.net. I also cannot get the commandbar to take over the functionality of the built in menu

 

Regards,

 

Boris

 

It would be good if some enterprising individual at CodeJock produced a conversion tool to convert VB menus to use commandbars... at least that would reduce the effort necessary to upgrade apps.

 

Absolutely right. I dropped a commandbar on the form and it converted the menus... fantastic. However, I also had toolbars on the form. When you have toolbars, the converted menu does not appear. So, back to square one - to make menus work you also have to convert toolbars.

 

Also, I have a lot of code to enable and disable individual menu items. None of this code had any effect. If the standard menu were handled, I wouldn't have to change any code.

 

The only point I am making here is that there is a truely fantastic skinning product here - far better than any other package I tried - that shoots itself in the foot by not handling menus. Just repeating the "use command bars" mantra does noting to solve the problem and, in my case, has driven away a customer.

 

Steve

 

 

I rebuilt all my menus and toolbars and I'm glad that I did. Now it's more structured then before, only one execute and only update event AND several options which I can only dream of when using the VB menu (no more searching on the internet and looking for a menu with icons, not even that is possible) If I look at my app now, it's (going to) look(s) better then ever and in combination with SkinFrameWork I give it   hehehe. I haven't explored all possible options with CJ controls but it looks great till now and easy to use (and the things we don't know we post here ) And if the number of members keeps growing, CJ will continue developing the controls for us. So don't let us down by NOT joining our group....

 

Note: this is not a commercial for CodeJock (and I don't get any extra airmiles for this )  

 

At this point the only option I have is to remove the skin from this window.  The form looks out of place, but at least they can get to their menus.

 

The rest of my application looks fantastic!

 

 

This for mister negativity:

Try V12.1 Beta and most of your problems would be solved  I did rebuild an old VB app and it works nice. Menu, popupmenu and system popupmenu skinned like you wanted it, without having to rewrite any code

 

  

 

Hi,

 

Just for the record... I'm just a user of the product, just like you  

 

 

 

Alas no. I've just heard back from the beta test people and I can't have the beta copy of the software. Seems only customers get beta test versions and, because the software didn't do what I wanted, I didn't purchase it and didn't become a customer.

 

So, my options are to give up or to buy a piece of software that us "functionally-challenged" in order to get a beta test of software that may still not work.

 

I don't fuly understand why beta testsoftware wouldn't work like trial software, but that's life I suppose.

 

Won't be around then. I got a new job yesterday so will move on before the new evaluation becomes available. After I've gone, the ability of my organistaion to be able to implement something like this will not exist (I'm the only programmer).

 

 

Hi,

 

Hi,

 

I have MS toolbars aligned to top in my app... is that enough to make you a believer? If you are going to test this I suggest you use MS toolbar 5.0 , there's a small problem with MS Toolbar 6.0 in first Beta release (but this has been fixed already see post https://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12126) maybe they added fix already in current Beta downloads...

 

 

It's a control of Microsoft common controls ComCTL32 library. Just an ordinary toolbar where you can add buttons (like CJ Commandbars toolbar) This control can be aligned as well.