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working with vfp native menus

working with vfp native menus

[Post 272] native vfp menus are obviously some old and somewhat obscure. in vfp language there is some supports to work with menus: 1-the menu designer creates an mnx/mnt menu and generates an MPR menu ( as a prg file),compiled as MPX file. the menu builder...

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Working with color schemes in vfp menus

Working with color schemes in vfp menus

The COLOR clause The trick is to use the COLOR clause in the DEFINE PAD, DEFINE POPUP or DEFINE BAR commands. (DEFINE PAD creates the top-level menu title, DEFINE POPUP creates the menu itself, and DEFINE BAR creates an individual menu item.) According...

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CSS3 menus  working  from vfp

CSS3 menus working from vfp

CSS3 can build cool modern menu easily with a minimal css code.To work it uses manadatory a navigator and the IE browser activex embed on form can do the job. IE must be of course emulated to work as modern browser:IE11 or edge . this is a pack of 4 css3...

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A vfp pageframe on a form  as main  menu

A vfp pageframe on a form as main menu

Pageframe vfp control is used here to build a menu with modern png icons.it is embed on a top level form with property alwaysOntop=.t. i made some transparency with the APÏ setLayeredWindow. it can encapsule too vfp standard controls as images,commandbuttons,grids,combo....in...

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Simulating a metro menu as win8.1 & win10

Simulating a metro menu as win8.1 & win10

This code simulates a metro menu as win8.1 or win10.It creates a single class used for all the animated controls and linking to do some vfp actions. the class uses images located in some pointed folder and animates them in 4 directions by a timer with...

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Working with windows handles and APIs- Part I

Working with windows handles and APIs- Part I

8 codes in this first part of windows ,handles and APIs showing how to manipulate any window, having a handle. In VFP , only forms are considered as Windows real object and have their handleThis integer,distributed by the system is used to make all operations...

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A CSS web menu on vfp form

A CSS web menu on vfp form

Nowadays modern styles such as CSS, HTML5 ... are fully on the worldwide web and make great attraction by users. Why not use them with Visual fox browser ( mandatory emulated (as ie11 for ex.) )! I made a small css menu on a web page navigated from the...

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