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Suppressing Last Reports Accessed List from File Menu in Designer

edited March 2003 in End User
Is there a way to suppress the listing of the last reports accessed
list at the bottom of the Designer File Menu? Better yet, is there a
way for this list not to get added to rbuilder.ini in the first place?

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Thanks,
Janine Anderson
Black Bear Systems, Inc.

Comments

  • edited March 2003
    There is no runtime support for this built in. It is always going to try to
    show the document history. About the only thing to try is to loop through
    the designer's main menu, from the bottom moving upwards, disabling the menu
    items for the different documents until the menu separator is encountered.


    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors


  • edited March 2003
    Thanks for the info, Jim. One of the reasons this is coming up is
    because I am attempting to force the use of the ini file in my exe
    directory rather than winsys (we have many sites where the sys admin
    removes write access to winsys from the users.) What I have
    encountered is that my new ini file isn't read until the user does
    something (like Save As) to force a write. Any ideas?

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    Thanks,
    Janine


  • edited March 2003
    Use the TppDesigner.IniStorageName and IniStorageType properties to control
    the type (file or registry based) and the location of the RBuilder.ini file.
    This way you don't have to use the windows system directory, but rather your
    working exe directory. This feature is only in RB 6.0 and higher.


    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors


  • edited March 2003
    Hi Jim, I am using this method, however when the designer first opens
    it appears to not read the file list in the ini if it is anywhere but
    WINSYS.

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    Thanks,
    Janine


  • edited March 2003
    Are you using RB 7? The latest version (RB 7.01) should work correctly. It
    works fine in our tests here. There was a bug with the ini settings in one
    of the initial RB 6.0 releases with this feature. If you can reproduce the
    problem in RB 7, can you send an example to support@digital-metaphors.com


    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors


  • edited March 2003
    No, we are using 6.03. You mention this bug was in "one of the initial
    RB 6.0 releases". Is there a later maintenance release for 6 that
    fixes this?

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    Thanks,
    Janine


  • edited March 2003
    I checked our logs and RB 6.03 shouldn't have a problem using the ini file
    settings. RB 6.03 is the latest version of RB 6 before RB 7. Can you
    reproduce the problem using RB 7.02 trial edition? If so, send us an example
    which demonstrates the problem and we can research it in RB 7.02. If it
    works correctly in RB 7.02 when it fails in RB 6.03, then you should upgrade
    to RB 7.02.


    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors


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