From: wucf@hotmail.com (Michael) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: how to hide forms menu? Date: 7 Aug 2001 17:05:29 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <3B654E98.25F16A43@mail.uni-mainz.de> <9k4maa$krn$1@gate.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.137.229.49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 997229129 29142 127.0.0.1 (8 Aug 2001 00:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Aug 2001 00:05:29 GMT richard@r-senior.demon.co.uk (Richard Senior) wrote in message news:<9k4maa$krn$1@gate.local>... > In article <3B654E98.25F16A43@mail.uni-mainz.de>, > Stefan Röhle writes: > > I am developing with Form Builder and I'd like to hide the standard > > icons that are shown under the standard forms menu bar (when running the > > .fmx file). > > How can this be done? > > Can you even run a form in some kind of "kiosk" mode (without the menu > > bar)? > > The default menu and 'Smartbar' icons can be replaced with any menu that > you choose, or with nothing if you prefer ... > > Open the form in Form Builder and look at the properties of the Form > module (i.e. select the appropriate form node in the object navigator and > press F4). Look for the Menu Module property; you should see > DEFAULT&SMARTBAR. If you make this blank (and regenerate the .fmx file), > both the menu and Smartbar will disappear from the form at runtime. > Alternatively, try setting it to DEFAULT, to have the menu but no > Smartbar. > > You can create your own menus in Form Builder using the Menu Builder tool > and these can be attached to a form using the Menu Module property > described above. You can use enable or disable a menu item function in pre-form or when-new-form instance trigger, like disable_item('menu_name','menu_item_name'), You can find this function from menu module if you have the demo on your pc. Hope this will help. mike wu