Drop-Down Menu Programming and WinBatch

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Question:

This is what i'm trying to do, I'm interested in creating a small window that is just 4 dropdown menus. From there the users will be able to select items to run. I'm ok on the code of a menu file, but how do i create this window, and add a menus bar to it? This is for win 3.x, but looking to do the same for win 95. Any help would be appreatiated. You can email me at moon_doggie@geocities.com BTW I amd using winbatch and compliler 96m.

Answer:

Currently (WB96B) there is no way to make exactly the sort of application you describe. WinBatch itself does not support menus.

WinBatch is a Batch Language implementation of the WIL language. As such, it does not support menu files. Other products (like Winbatch Studio) contain menu-file based implementations.

The 32 bit version of WinBatch includes a PopMenu utility that is fairly close to the application you describe.

In general, when this sort of request has popped up, we suggest developing a menu system based on pushbuttons in dialogs.

You can construct the dialog using the dialog editor, and have several layers of pushbuttons if desired.

Article ID:   W13012

Filename:   Menuing Abilities using WinBatch.txt

File Created: 2001:01:08:12:08:54

Last Updated: 2001:01:08:12:08:54

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