Does anyone have examples of custom menu's they could post ?
Tips on creating custom menu's?

I have created custom menu's that work off command buttons using macro's, the problem comes in trying to return to the custom menu after executing a command button macro.I read that Bill Halperm had a demostration at the users conference that addressed this, maybe someone would shed some light on this for those of us who couldn't attend. 

I tryed a on form exit macro to take me back, but for some reason it didn't work, I searched the archives yesterday and found another thread on the subject that helped a little, still trying to figure that thread out, also talked with insidesesame, and a upcoming edition will have a featured article on it.,soon I hope  , seems to me like a better method would be sbasic programming, I'll keep on it till I get it. The command tree is no problem for me, but when other employee's begin to use the program a custom menu system would avoid alot of problems.

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Hello Steve,

Escape works the same way in Sesame. Where in your application does Escape not exit the form or does so slowly?

-Ray

I got the custom menu's working last night all with "@selecttreeitem" commands, I put a command button on the forms to save the record and then call the menu back, not as sleek as I'd like but it works great, used tab forms for the menu, I'd post some screen shots if I knew how to do it. About the speed of Sesame if we all could run in Linux it runs in turbo mode, don't know what the difference is between windows & linux with the speed but it was a real eye opener, I'm guessing its the extra "fat" in the windows operating system.
Thanks to Bob Hansen, and Ray I was able to post some screen shots.
http://tinypic.com/m34ly
http://tinypic.com/m34sn
http://tinypic.com/m3511
http://tinypic.com/m352b

I have been experimenting with menus.  Attached are some screen shots of some of my menu toys.  I had these with me at the Users Conference, done with 1.0.4

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The first screenshot has two images in the same shot for convenience here.

My first attempt was to make the existing Q&A users feel comfortable with Sesame, make it look and feel the same.   Really looks like Q&A but it really different Sesame forms being called up. Used lines with boxes and buttons.   The choices are buttons that call other forms.  Positioning is critical between forms to prevent jumpiong image of forms changing.

First image is my "Q&A style" Sesame Main Menu. 
Second image is result after clicking on File..


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The second screenshot has three images in one shot, again for convenience here.

I really wanted to consider something like a "normal" Main Menu Bar at the top.  Here are the results

First view is the "normal" Menu Bar at the Top.
The second image is the result after clicking on File, which does a drop down list. 
Clicking on Design File opens the menu to the right, and dropping to the bottom and clicking on Customize Application results in the third image.


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The third shot is a screen shot of the Menu Bar System in the Design Mode.  It is just a bunch of buttons that turn Visibility On/Off when clicked.  This is what is underneath the images just shown above.

Buttons can actually be laid over other buttons since only one branch would be visible at any one time.  Use different colors for each drop down branch with a slight offset to the button so you can see where you have buttons on the form. 

I had to use a "Reset" button to minimize them all back to the Main Menu again, but not a big deal.  (Could probably use invisibility status to reverse branches).  One button does it all.  Use of "special characters indicates where branches will extend.

And one more button to Exit the Menu Bar system.



With some planning of labels, and the use of OnImmediateChange programming, these could be made to trigger when the first letter of each is typed.
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Again, these are just experimental toys.  I apologize for any typos, bad colors, unrealisitc menu choices, etc.

proudpoppy,
Could you post some examples of the code you used to create your menus.  I'm trying to do the same thing.

Thanks

Does your db open to your main menu page?  How do you do that?  Will your command buttons switch between tab pages?  If so how do you do that?

Ok.  I figured out how to close the command area on form entry.  Can you create command buttons to switch between tab pages?

Does your db open to your main menu page?

Mine don't, but I read somewhere that you could do that by calling a macro with a startup switch something like this "c:\sesame\programs\sesame.exe - @macro("mainmenu") the instructions maybe on this board.Its in archives pg.#5 "Custom Menus"

Will your command buttons switch between tab pages?

No but a new command in 1.0.5 should help with that.

Hope this helps.