Accessing the report designer menu items at runtime

rbuser

I just upgraded from ReportBuilder 7 to version 10 and I'm having some
trouble migrating some of the code. For one project, I need to hide
some of the menus of the report editor. In version 7, I could do so by
name (e.g. mniFileNewReport.Visible := false), but in version 10, the
menu items are created by runtime and I can't reference them by name.
Is any way to disable or hide the menu items without iterating through
the MainMenu property of the TppDesignerWindow object and matching the
appropriate items by the caption?

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nicocizik

Hi Chris,

The designer toolbars and menus have been drastically changed for RB 10.x.
Take a look at the following example on how to manipulate the various new
components.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/Designer10_CustomizeMenusAndToolbars.zip

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nicocizik

Hi Tailor,

Take a look in the example of the commented code accessing the file menu
directly. Once you get access to the TppDesignFileMenu object, it is
possible to add or remove items from the menu using the same method we use
in our code. Take a look at the TppDesignFileMenu.CreateItems and
TppDesignFileMenu.CreateControls routines located in the
ppDesignLayoutMenu.pas file for an example of this.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) escreveu:
Interesting ... I am looking for a similiar thing. I have a legacy
application made by another person, and I trying to make it works with
RB 10 (it was made with RB 6 or 7) If I can show/hide a menu item with
that, I could simulate a click too. Can I apply something like this to
call specific methods found on popup menus of the designer? Some options
found that does not appear on the main menu.

rbuser

Thanks Nico,

I found a brute force way of accomplishing this, but the code that you
provided is much cleaner.

rbuser

That's OK, but if the option is not acessible in the Design menu ? There
is options that only appears on a popup menu for the selected object.
Can I do simulate in code a "rigth click, left clik on the xx option",
that is, activating by code any option visible on the popup associated
with an object of the report?

Thanks.

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) escreveu:

nicocizik

Hi Tailor,

If you take a look at the CreateControls routine as mentioned below, you
will see that all the options are created and added when the menu is
created. With the example, you have the ability to take complete control
over the menu and customize it however you need, removing or adding hidden
options.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com