Dacons Menu Control

[SteveB]

In case anyone is interested, Dacons just released version 3.0, which is compatible with Filemaker 8.0.

Steve

[Ocean West]

sweet!

[Zero Tolerence]

What benifit does it offer over the new Custom Menu's that FM8 has?

[SteveB]

One, Dacons can disable menu items on the fly...one call grays an item out. It can remove the Window widgets (min, max and close). Allows sub-menus which Filemaker doesn't. Easy to use, xplat compatible, can assign keystrokes to menu entries. Can remove the right-click context menu, as well as change its contents.

My real problem with Filemaker's menus, putting an Exit command on the first menu which can't be removed is not a problem with Dacons.

There are more things that it can do, so check web site for a comparison and a trial version. It will make a huge difference in what your application looks like.

Steve

[Reed]

Allows sub-menus which Filemaker doesn't.

Just for the record, you can create submenus with 8 advanced custom menus.

The thing that burns me the most is that I purchased Dacons menu control 2 a couple of weeks before September 1st... so I have to pay to upgrade now... or choose between dacons and fmp8...

getting custom context menus would be nice, but the exit item on windows and the application menu on the Mac aren't annoying enough for me to upgrade

[SteveB]

You're right about the sub-menus, as I did create them with Advanced. Dacons is offering a free upgrade from v2 depending upon your purchase date. You might want to contact them, as they are reasonable guys.

I have a very tightly scripted solution, and I don't want the user exiting from anywhere but my main menu, plus I need to disable the Windows widgets.

Steve

[Oldfogey]

Steve,

I haven't had a chance to play with this yet but am very nervous about distributing runtimes with plug-ins. Do you distribute runtimes to a wide range of OSes? No problems?

[kfok]

Menu Control has a problem with Windows XP SP2 firewall. There will be a security alert when the menu control is running.

[SteveB]

There should be one question that Windows pops up that if you answer 'Yes', you shouldn't be bothered again. Since it doesn't happen to me, I can't tell you what it is. Did you try the developers for help?

Old Fogey wrote:

Steve,

I haven't had a chance to play with this yet but am very nervous about distributing runtimes with plug-ins. Do you distribute runtimes to a wide range of OSes? No problems?

I don't do Macs, and for Windows, we've eliminiated W95-98. The other platforms shouldn't be any different. My belief is that this plugin has little or nothing to do with the operating system, and only communicates internally with FM.

Steve

Edited November 4, 2005 by Guest

[kfok]

The attached jpeg shows the security alert when menu control is running.

[kfok]

Also, I contacted Dacons about the problem but they said it only happens with WinXP SP2. It seems they are not to going to solve this problem. The Menu Control version 3 still has the same issue.