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Terry Raymond

VW 7.6 - How does one reorder the RB code menus ?

I find myself doing a lot of code editing, i.e. cut, copy,
and paste, as well as 'replace'. So I want to reorder the
menus to put the most used commands at the top. For those
of you that would suggest I use the keyboard shortcuts, the
problem is I use a left-handed mouse so would have to constantly
move my hand from the mouse to keyboard, which kind of defeats
the purpose of the shortcuts.

Anyway, does anyone know what methods need to be changed to
reorder the menus? I tried changing #mainMenu but when I
reopened the RB after reloading the menus I got an exception.

I then tried to do #initializeMenus with no code changes and
again got an exception after reopening the browser. At this
point I thought it best to ask for help.

Terry

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Niall Ross

Re: VW 7.6 - How does one reorder the RB code menus ?

Dear Terry,

>... does anyone know what methods need to be changed to
>reorder the menus? I tried changing #mainMenu but when I
>reopened the RB after reloading the menus I got an exception.
>
>I then tried to do #initializeMenus with no code changes and
>again got an exception after reopening the browser. At this
>point I thought it best to ask for help.
>
Try
BrowserApplicationModel flushMenus.
(I would not expect mere order rearrangement would cause DNU, but maybe
prudent to close all browsers before doing it.)

If you were adding or removing any commands then
RBCommand flushActions.
would also be necessary; not needed in this case, however.

In 7.7 and after, some menu items are added by pragmas, so reordering
would require changing the value in the pragma. I think those are rare
in 7.6 so unlikely to affect you.

HTH.
Yours faithfully
Niall Ross

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Niall Ross

Re: VW 7.6 - How does one reorder the RB code menus ?

My mailer bounced back the message to terry - trying again.

>Dear Terry,
>
>
>
>>... does anyone know what methods need to be changed to
>>reorder the menus? I tried changing #mainMenu but when I
>>reopened the RB after reloading the menus I got an exception.
>>
>>I then tried to do #initializeMenus with no code changes and
>>again got an exception after reopening the browser. At this
>>point I thought it best to ask for help.
>>
>>
>>
>Try
> BrowserApplicationModel flushMenus.
>(I would not expect mere order rearrangement would cause DNU, but maybe
>prudent to close all browsers before doing it.)
>
>If you were adding or removing any commands then
> RBCommand flushActions.
>would also be necessary; not needed in this case, however.
>
>In 7.7 and after, some menu items are added by pragmas, so reordering
>would require changing the value in the pragma. I think those are rare
>in 7.6 so unlikely to affect you.
>
>HTH.
> Yours faithfully
> Niall Ross
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