My app has a number of forms. Copy, cut, and paste work fine
with them. The invoicing program has a secondary "form" on which it
does not work.

This secondary form is actually a toolbar which has a label, edit
box, and command button. Copy, cut, and paste do not work with the
edit box even though the system edit menu shows appropriate enabling
of the functions as I highlight text in the edit box.

Do copy, cut, and paste not work with toolbars, or is my problem
something else?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

I just created a toolbar with one textbox, and sure enough cut/copy/paste
are disabled. I suspect it has something to do with toolbars never receiving
focus. If they can't receive focus, then there can't be anything to cut/copy
and can't be anywhere to paste.

Out of curiosity whether this was a "Microsoft thing" or a "Fox thing" I
opened Word. Select some text in the Font combo box on the formatting
toolbar. Cut/Copy are disabled (but paste isn't). In Excel, though, all
three are enabled.

So the answer to your question is "yep, that's the way it works -- but not
everywhere". Microsoft can't agree across platforms. :-(

Dan


Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:53:46 -0700, "Dan Freeman" <spam (AT) microsoft (DOT) com>
wrote:

That is what I suspected. Selecting text is no problem though,
and <Delete> works fine on selected text.

My boss found this one.

They work in Word 2000.

They work in Excel 2000.

All together now: "SIGH!"

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:53:46 -0700, "Dan Freeman" <spam (AT) microsoft (DOT) com>
wrote:

Now, I am stuck with what to do about it.

The reason that I went with a toolbar in the first place was
because I use modal forms and the subform I created was modal whether
I wanted it that way or not. Setting it to nonmodal made no
difference. (If I made an error here, I would love to be corrected.)

I thought that a toolbar would help me get around that. It did,
but at this then-unknown cost of having no copy, cut, and paste with
it.

Any ideas how to get both functionalities?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Gene,

What about doing your own cut, copy and paste functions on a popup menu?

Alternatively, instead of using a toolbar, could you do the same thing with
a popup panel. What I use is a series of panels (containers) that I set to
visible whenever I need them. I might have a series of buttons on a form,
one might be "\<Add". When I click "Add" I hide the buttons container and
show a data entry panel in which I use an apply or cancel button to close
the panel (and validate/update the table as neccessary). I never do data
entry directly into a grid.

HTH
Jan

"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ucantrade (DOT) com.NOTHERE> wrote

set sysmenu to _msm_edit

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:23:50 +0800, man-wai chang
<toylet.toylet (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Did you try this? It does not work. Note that the edit box is
in a toolbar. I already have
set system to _medit
in my startup, and consequently, copy, cut, and paste work fine in
forms. They do not work in the toolbar.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:04:41 +1000, "Jan" <Nomail (AT) Nowhere (DOT) com> wrote:

I have never used popup menus in VFP. How does one set them up?
(What do I need to look up in the docs?)

I can not tell what you mean by "panel". Is it simply a
container class?

[snipped previous]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko