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SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Aug 29th, 2007 at 7:29pm
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SBasic routine to accomplish this here.

I don't want to use COMMAND TREE MODE: SINGLE because that only shows one mode at a time, either Add or Search/Update.  What I want is both to be available, but with the tree collapsed, so that the user needs to click on the plus signs to expand as needed.  Right now when I start up, everything is expanded, and it's visually aggressive for my newbie users.  Is there an .ini setting which will accomplish what I want?
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #1 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 7:35pm
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No INI file setting, but you can use @ContractTreeItem.
  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #2 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 7:59pm
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In the User Guide on Page 42 and 43 it gives you .ini setting as well as startup switch to do what you want to do.

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Single Level menu trees may make the initial transition for untrained users easier.
Single level menus can be set in two places …
Sesame.ini file
To set single level menus use the following line to the Sesame.INI file:
COMMAND TREE MODE: <SINGLE> | <FULL>
Single – Menu tree will only show one level of commands at time.
Full – Traditional mode wherein multiple levels are displayed at the same time.
Figure 12. Single Level vs Normal Level Display Menu Tree


Startup switch
To set single level menus use the following startup switch when running Sesame:
Sesame.exe -singlelevel
The -singlelevel command line startup switch causes the command tree in Sesame to
default to single level mode.
If you do not make an entry in the Sesame.Ini file or as a command line startup
switch, Full is the default.
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #3 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:00pm
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Will that work for application programming, On-Application-Open?  How would I refer to the Mode and Form branches?
  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #4 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:08pm
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Infinity wrote on Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:00pm:
Will that work for application programming, On-Application-Open?

Yes, it will work On Application Open.

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  How would I refer to the Mode and Form branches?

Well, you could do it by hand using a list of your Databases, or you could get all slick about it. Version 2 has @ListDatabases. You could use this to write a generic routine that works even if you rename/add/delete Databases.  Smiley
  
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Reply #5 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:08pm
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Thank you Bharat, but what I'm looking for is something in between Single and Full.  With Single, if the user selects Add Mode, Search Mode disappears, and you have to back out of Add to get to it.  But with Full, the entire tree is expanded, and one user has already told me she gets confused by such an abundance of choices, and she starts clicking away at everything.  Unfortunately, I can't be by all my user's sides all day to hold their hands for them, much as they would like that.

What I'd like the user to see, when he opens the application is something like this:
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-MIARA
     -Forms
	    +Add Data
	    +Search/Update


Then, he can use the plus signs to expand to:
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-MIARA
     -Forms
	    -Add Data
		    +Customer
		    +Workorder
		    +Invoice
		    +Equipment
		    +Tariff
		    +Vehicles
		    +Employee
		    +PurchaseOrder
	    +Search/Update

and so on.
  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
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Yes, it will work On Application Open.

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Well, you could do it by hand using a list of your Forms, or you could get all slick about it. Version 2 has @ListDatabases and @ListFormsByDatabase. You could

I'm going to have to stop you there.   Shocked  You have too much faith in me.  I think you mean you could do it.  I, on the other hand, could tell my users "that's just the way it is, deal with it" and then study study study to learn these tricks and then one day (hopefully) succeed at the task and give it to them IT'S MAGIC WOO HOO!.
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combine these to write a generic routine that works even if you rename/add/delete Databases/Forms.

This sounds great; I'm hitting the books right now, give it the old college try.  Maybe if I had an ice cold gin & tonic by my side I could face the challenge with more enthusiasm (it's 82 degrees in my office today).
  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #7 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:32pm
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Scott,

I'll give you a few tips on what you're gonna need to do this.

@ListDatabases() Page 282 Programming Guide 2.0
@CountStringArray() page 197 Programming Guide 2.0
@AccessStringArray() page 157 Programming Guide 2.0
@Application() page 164 Programming Guide 2.0
@ContractTreeItem() page page 195 Programming Guide 2.0

And a While loop(Pages 68-70 just in case).

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Reply #8 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:35pm
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Thanks Ray, I'll see what I can put together.  In the meantime, please whip up an .ini setting that will accomplish it 15 minutes after I've perfected the code.   Grin
  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #9 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 8:52pm
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I doubt there would be much of a use for this to be an INI entry, maybe a general contract/expand tree item one but not one so defined.

Btw. It's only 25 lines of SBasic code with several lines of white space to do what you want to do.

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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #10 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 9:13pm
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Btw. It's only 25 lines of SBasic code with several lines of white space to do what you want to do.

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Scott, I will be glad to help you out with the several lines of white space if it would help.  Wink
  
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Reply #11 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 9:22pm
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WOO HOO!  This is working REAL NICE:
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var vTree as Int

// Contracts the Command Tree mode items

vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!CUSTOMER")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!WORKORDR")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!INVOICE")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!EQUIPMENT")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!TARIFF")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!VEHICLES")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Add Data!EMPLOYEE")

vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!CUSTOMER")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!WORKORDR")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!INVOICE")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!EQUIPMENT")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!TARIFF")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!VEHICLES")
vTree = @ContractTreeItem("MIARA!Forms!Search/Update!EMPLOYEE")


Thanks again to everyone for the pointers, and thank you Robert but I buy my white space by the gross.
  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #12 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 9:24pm
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Btw. It's only 25 lines of SBasic code with several lines of white space to do what you want to do.


17 lines and works like a charm.  Smiley
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var vList as String
var vCount as Int
var vLoop as Int
var vApp as String
var vDB as String
var vTemp as Int

	vApp = @Application
	vList = @ListDatabases()
	vCount = @CountStringArray(vList)
	For vLoop = 1 to vCount
		vDB = @AccessStringArray(vList, vLoop)
		vTemp = @ContractTreeItem(vApp + "!Forms!Add Data!" + vDB)
		vTemp = @ContractTreeItem(vApp + "!Forms!Search/Update!" + vDB)
	Next
	vTemp = @ContractTreeItem(vApp + "!Forms!Add Data!")
	vTemp = @ContractTreeItem(vApp + "!Forms!Search/Update!")


  
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Re: SIni setting for collapsed command tree?
Reply #13 - Aug 29th, 2007 at 9:36pm
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See, what did I say?  I said 15 minutes, and I waaay overshot the mark.  I posted my code at 5:22 and TWO MINUTES LATER Erika posted hers, which results in a much prettier display.  I was off by 13 minutes.

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