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jbaklayan1-Visitor
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June 5, 2013
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Toolbar popup menu

  • June 5, 2013
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I am using version 5.3. Currently a user can right click on the menu bar and a popup menu appears that lets them hide/show the different toolbars. Is there a way to turn off this popup or capture a change. I need to do this because there is a bug where if certain buttons on the Edit toolbar are removed using dlgitem_withdraw (such as Preview), they reappear if the toolbar is hidden and then reshown. Thanks.

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    LynnHales1-Visitor
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    June 6, 2013
    It has been a long time since I played with 5.3 and/or modifying menus, so
    cavet emptor with this.



    A couple of things to look at if you don't get a better answer.



    First, play with the 'menu_delete' command (help 9123). I am not real sure
    this will do anything for popup menus though.



    Second, open up the 'editmenu.cf' file in the epic-path\bin folder. There
    are two places where the 'toolbar' choices can be made. First is in the the
    'view' menu>toolbars and the other is further down that brings up the popup
    menu. You could comment the popup out and see what that does. I don't really
    recommend this approach as the menus are a core feature of Epic (though they
    can be modified).



    Lastly, check and see if the function 'toolbarlist' is an ACL supported
    feature in 5.3 (it is part of the 'epiccore.dll' in 5.4 and later. If it is
    an ACL function in 5.3, you may be able to modify it. I have a nice file
    grep program, so finding that string wasn't difficult.



    Regardless of which route you take, you may need to have some kind of
    callback to make sure things don't get reset as you see happening now.
    Actually you might be able to capture the 'unhide' event and do the
    dlgitem_withdraw again.



    I'm just thinking and none of these may work.



    Lynn


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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    June 6, 2013
    Hi John--

    I don't have 5.3 installed, but on 6.0, it works to redefine the ToolbarMenu command alias to some null operation, something like this:

    alias ToolbarMenu {}

    Hopefully this will work similarly in 5.3.

    --Clay
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    jbaklayan1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    June 10, 2013

    Thanks. Setting the alias turned it off.

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