Custom menu for the designer calc tab

rbuser

Hi,
I am using D5 and D7 with RBuilder 7.03 on Windows 2000 and XP Pro. How
would I go about customising the help menu in the calc tab of the report
designer? I can customise the designer menu ok, but this only gives me
access to the design and preview tabs, not the calc or data tabs. I want to
give my end users access to a help file with tips on using RAP, so it needs
to be accessible from the calc tab as this is where most code gets written.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Robin Glaze.

nardmoseley

- To customize the Help see the article below

- There is a Learning ReportBuilder and Learning ReportBuilder RAP end-user
guides that contain excellent tutorials, the Learning ReportBuilder RAP
focuses specifically on teaching RAP to end-users. These can be downloaded
for free and freely redistributed.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/download/learning_reportbuilder.html

- It is also possible to customize the menu items for each workspace. For RB
7.x, you can use the Designer OnTabChanged event to access the
Designer.Menu.



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Customizing the Designer's Help Menu
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The TppDesigner.OnHelp event can be used to control what happens when the
end-user requests help.


The following is from the RBuilder.hlp file topic for TppDesigner.OnHelp:


Declaration
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property OnHelp: TppHelpEvent = procedure(Sender: TObject; var aHelpFile,
aKeyphrase: String; var aCallHelp: Boolean) of object;

Description
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Write an OnHelp event handler to perform special processing when the user
requests help. The OnHelp event is triggered when the user makes a selection
and clicks 'F1' or access the Help | Help Topics menu option.

The aHelpFile parameter can take a file name or full path and file name. If
the aCallHelp parameter is set to False, WinHelp will not be called.

rbuser

Thanks Nard,

I hadn't seen the Learning to RAP pdf, it is indeed excellent and contains
many of the examples I had put in my custom help file (ho hum...). Your
pointers have enabled me to completely customise the help menu in the three
tabs. I note from your excerpt that the RBuilder help file is quite a bit
more detailed than the one I have from version 7.03.

Anyway thanks again!!

Robin