Custom Menus and Runtime Mode

[dch3]

I'm looking at distributing an .MDE as a front end. I have a custom Menu Bar
which I populate via code. When I run the .MDE with Access in RUNTIME mode,
the custom Menu Bar is not available.

What do I need to do in order to have my custom Menu Bar displayed? Do I
have to accept the Menu Bar that the runtime mode presents and then modify it
via code to add my own menu group?

 

[dch3]

That is precisely what I need to do. Each user has their own profile as to
what they can and can't do. The code adds these functions to the Menu Bar
each time the database starts. Avoids having to clutter up forms with
numerous command buttons and distributes the functions across the
application. Users *do not* have to exit out of what they're doing if they
need to do a related function. (Why should I have to exit entering an order
to update a customer's address?)

 

[Rick Brandt]

If I understand your post, you're trying to dynamically make ***design
changes*** to your custom Menu Bar, and you cannot do this to an MDE
file. The whole point in using MDE files is to prevent design changes
from being made! .

MDE do not prevent all design changes. Only those to code based objects and
I don't think that applies to toolbars. I certainly have MDEs in use that
manipulate toolbars, but there might be some limitations.

 

[dch3]

I think its a /runtime issue as the custom menu was available when I checked
the most recent .MDE