Re: Menu as 1-liner

->From: svb@freya.muc.de (Sebastian v. Bomhard) ->Subject: Menu as 1-liner ->Date: 1 Jul 1993 00:19:58 +0200 ->Reply-To: svb@muc.de -> ->Ok, I give in. I tried to display a menu in one single line. ->What I did is about the following: -> ->OPEN WINDOW w_p_men AT 2,2 WITH 1 ROWS, 77 COLUMNS ATTRIBUTE(BORDER) -> ->I need that window for a multipurpose window in a mask where I have ->not very much room ... As one might expect, the menu is not very nice: ->It's all blank, because those help lines overwrite the menu items. It ->is LAST LINE == FIRST LINE, that's the problem. I tried attributes, no ->help. -> ->attribute (border, message line last + 1, error line 100000, prompt line 0) -> ->:-( all combinations. According to the manual there really seems to be ->no option "nomessage" or were I too fast to give in? -> ->Anyway, can YOU help me? I *know* that the standard 4gl way is to put a ->menu on top of the form it belongs to. But, alas, it doesn't belong to a ->form, I don't know which window is active, the only thing I do know is that ->I have only three rows for that. -> ->What did you say? The border? I NEED the border, it looks so ugly ->without it... ;-) -> ->Bye for now and thanks for your help, -> -svb. ->-- ->Sebastian v. Bomhard, +49-89-298934, +49-89-296629 <svb@muc.de> -> St.-Anna-Str. 13, D-W-8000 Muenchen 22 (Lehel) ->>>>>>>>>>>> The early bird catches the EARLY worm. <<<<<<<<<<<< -> Lieber Sebastian, I tried to do something similar to your 1-line window, and I was NEVER able to get it to work quite as I wanted. It appears that the menu functions of 4GL assume that you will have at least two lines. If you don't, then they trash your screen in various ways, depending on the details of your program and environment. HOWEVER, since you CAN afford three lines and your window is at the top of screen, why not try something like the following: OPEN WINDOW kleine AT 1,1 WITH 3 ROWS, 79 COLUMNS DISPLAY "--------------------------------------------------------------" AT 3,1 This gives you a "one-edge" border, and still allows two lines for the menu. O ___________________________ Regards, H | R. Alan Popiel |__________________ Alan H | Martin Marietta, Tech Ops | Internet: |_________________________ H | P.O. Box 179, M/S 5422 | alan@den.mmc.com | / H | Denver, CO 80201-0179 USA | Voice: | Std disclaimers apply./ H |___________________________| 303-977-9998 | ( H (_____________________| (But you knew that!) \\ H (___________________________\\