Menu forms

[B]

Hi,

In a Windows application, I can create a base form with
a menu and then inherit from this form when I create other
forms.
When I do this for a Pocket PC application I get many
errors when I build this.

How are you guys creating a single menu and using it
across multiple forms??? I am looking for ideas or any
idiomatic solutions to this problem.

thanks in advance

 

[chris-s]

There are some work arounds to get visual inheritance to work, but I'm not
really sure what is involved, search the newsgroups for this.

They way I handled having the same menu across different forms was to create
a class that actually creates the menu structure, then call this each time a
form is created. I basically created a form with a mainmenu, added all the
detail, then cut the auto-generated code for it out and used it to create a
menu creation class. It works well, although there was a problem with it not
liking to create separator bars for some reason.

I did try playing around with the idea of copying a menu structure, the idea
being that I would create just one instance of a mainmenu, then write a
function to copy it's structure etc to a new one, but there were issues with
this.

Chris

 

[Hollywood]

I did something similiar to the "cut the auto-generated code", but I
encapsulated it in a root class which I then store in an application session
api that I use (similiar to an ASP session to some degree). This way any
form I have can ask the session for the menu object and attach it to the
form. The menu object then knows how to handle all the events raised by the
menu.