Custom Menu Question

[Edward Newman]

I just started playing with custom menus and I can't seem to do what I want which is create menus and sub menus that can run scripts. I wanted to create a whole menu structure to replace many of the buttons on my layotus. Am I correct that this cannot be done?

[SteveB]

Yes, you are correct. I find FM's menu capability very limiting. If you can afford it, look at Dacon's Menu Control, which will allow you to create menus, sub-menus, disable menu entries on the fly, remove window widgets, etc. It is very easy to use. See it at Link

Steve

[Fenton]

It is not true that you can't add new menus and run scripts. While it's certainly true that plug-ins will give you more, there's quite a bit you can do with 8's menus. It is a bit difficult to figure out how to do it however.

[SteveB]

Sure you can add menus, but you can't disable a menu entry, you can't create flyouts and you can't use a valuelist as a flyout, you can't remove window widgets, and my all time favorite: those jokers added the Exit command onto the 1st menu, which can't be removed.

Steve

[Edward Newman]

Here is an example of what I want...

- Delete all entries from file menu except exit

- Add entry to file menu "Invoices" and have it run the scrip "start invoices"

- Add entry to file menu "Workorders" and have it run the scrip "start Workorders"

and so on...

I can't see how to do this with the FM8 Dev custom menu function

[Jeff Bills]

Am I missing something or is this what your looking for?

Choose the action button. Note that I removed all from the File drop-menu except "Invoices" (set to run a script) and "Exit" (I'm a Mac user so . . .)