Question about PB Note

[Dominique Bodin]

Hello,
i'm studying the PBNote source code, and i wonder why
the menu work's this strange way ? I mean, it doesn't works
like any other's. I would want to make it downloaded with just
a single click.
Could someone help ? ? ?

Thank's.

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[Dominique Bodin]

Please could someone help me with that question ? ? ?

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[Steve Hutchesson]

Dominique,

I am not sure what the problem is that you are having, PBnote should build
from the IDE if I remember correctly. The PBnote.rc file is a bit unusual
in that it defines the menu items as an equate from WM_USER and then
increments each following item from that reference point.

You can quite easily use numbers as menu item identifiers which is in fact
more efficient according to the Microsoft documentation.

    POPUP "&File"
      BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&New\tCtrl+N",                         IDM_NEW
        MENUITEM "&Open\tCtrl+O",                        IDM_OPEN
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "&Save\tCtrl+S",                        IDM_SAVE
        MENUITEM "Save &As",                             IDM_SAVEAS
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "E&xit\tAlt+F4",                        IDM_EXIT
      END

would become,

    POPUP "&File"
      BEGIN
        MENUITEM "&New\tCtrl+N",                         100
        MENUITEM "&Open\tCtrl+O",                        101
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "&Save\tCtrl+S",                        102
        MENUITEM "Save &As",                             103
        MENUITEM SEPARATOR
        MENUITEM "E&xit\tAlt+F4",                        104
      END

or any other number sequence that you found convenient. The only thing is
of course is that you would have to have the same numbers in the WndProc
function where the WM_COMMAND messages are processed.

    CASE %WM_COMMAND
      SELECT CASE LOWRD(wParam)

        CASE %IDM_NEW ' becomes CASE 100    etc....

This way you don't need to duplicate the equates in the PowerBASIC code
and it is simpler to keep track of what identifier is used for each menu
item.

Regards,

[email protected]


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[Borje Hagsten]

Don't understand "downloaded with just a single click". What do
you mean?


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[Dominique Bodin]

Borje,
I mean that when i click on the menu, it doesn't show it's
content immediately !
It only does whent the mouse cursor moves down under the item
clicked.
Then i can see the content of the menu and chose one of the
option !

A "normal" menu immediatly shows it's content when you click on
it, and it's what i whant !

Steve,
thank's for the answer, i will try to do it the way you explained .

Thank's to both of you !

Dominique Bodin.

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[Borje Hagsten]

Strange. It drops down the menus fine for me. What kind of system
do you use? Win95/98/NT/2000? Especially NT is very picky about all
details being absolutely correct. When I look at the code, something
is missing in WndProc, under %WM_MENUSELECT. Win32api.hlp states
"If an application processes this message, it should return zero",
but that is not done in this sample.

Maybe it will work better if you add this, so it looks like:

    CASE %WM_MENUSELECT
      LoadString hInst, wParam, zText, SIZEOF(zText)
      SendMessage hStatus, %WM_SETTEXT, 0, VARPTR(zText)
      FUNCTION = 0 : EXIT FUNCTION

It's a long shot, I know, but still worth trying..

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[Dominique Bodin]

Steve,
Thank's for your suggestions, it works fine now !

Borje,
I tried your suggestion, but made no differencies !
But as you said, perhaps would it make a difference
for NT users or others ? I'm using Win98.

Thanks to both of you for help!

Dominique.

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[Curtis De Vries]

I am using Windows 98 and it works perfect. Does any of
the other programs that came with PB do the same thing?
Curtis