XPMenus in a baseclass

[Alex Brunner]

I build a baseclass for datamanipulation which includes a childframebarmanager control. I defined the main toolbar and the main menu for this baseclass.

Now, when I inherit from this class to build an implementation of a dataform, the designer cannot load the design view of this form (see attached file).

Isn't it possible to do something like that?
How should I build such a behavior instead?
Do I have to put a childformbarmanager on each form?

kind regards,

Alex

[Administrator]

We did some testing and realised that there are some issues with the ChildFrameBarManager that doesn't let you put it in a base Form and design it in a derived Form.

We will fix this issue in the final release. We apologize for the inconvenience.

-Praveen Ramesh

> I build a baseclass for datamanipulation which includes a childframebarmanager control. I defined the main toolbar and the main menu for this baseclass.
>
> Now, when I inherit from this class to build an implementation of a dataform, the designer cannot load the design view of this form (see attached file).
>
> Isn't it possible to do something like that?
> How should I build such a behavior instead?
> Do I have to put a childformbarmanager on each form?
>
> kind regards,
>
> Alex

[Alex Brunner]

Could it be possible to receive a patch for this problem? It won't make very much sense, if I now start building an application and have to place the XPMenus in every form instead of deriving from a base form that already holds this ChildFrameBarManager and just customize it.

Alex

[Administrator]

Yes, we can send you a patch in a day or 2.

-Praveen

[Administrator]

Alex,

We now have full design-time support for the XP Menus in the derived Form's designer.

But, we are not comfortable in sending you a patch, considering that many of our componants are in development-mode for RC2 and hence a little unstable.

Please wait for a few more days for our RC2 release.

Thanks
-Praveen Ramesh