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From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: pull down menus with paradox
Message-ID: <1991May29.011349.19256@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 01:13:49 GMT
References: <1991May22.232716.27515@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <6236@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <6236@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Bill Yock) writes:
>From article <1991May22.232716.27515@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, by ede879g@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson):
>> In paradox 3.5 how do you program pull down menus.
>> Such as in turbo c.
>> Using PAL.
[ stuff deleted ]
>When you say the popmenu is activated do you mean the setpopup routines in the
>Data Entry Toolkit?  If I remember correctly those only paint a popup menu on
>the canvas.  The Showmenu command displays a ring menu on the top two lines of
>the workspace.  To paint the canvas with a copy of what's on the workspace 
>before changing the canvas issue a ECHO FAST ECHO OFF command sequence.  This
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>allows canvas to be displayed with a copy of what's on the workspace such as

The easy and recommended way to do this is to issue a call to the function
REFRESHCANVAS() ... especially if you have any intentions of distributing
applications to run under Paradox Runtime, since the ECHO command is dis-
abled from working when executing apps under the runtime environment.

Glenn