Right click disabled

[John J.]

Access2003. Recently I 'converted' my frontend to an mde file. All is
working well, except the standard rightclick options (copy, paste, etc. in
forms or tables) are disabled. The right click menu doesn't pop up anymore.
Is this standard behavior for mde files? If not, what can I do to fix it?

Thank you.
John

 

[Klatuu]

That is normal.
The right click options imply making a change to the database. You cannot
make changes to an mde. That is the design intent.

 

[John J.]

Thanks Chris.
Indeed I did switch that off a while ago as I didn't realize shortcutmenus
were in fact the right click menus.

Btw: strange those basic menus aren't available in the runtime version.

John

 

[John J.]

Interesting. Thanks.

I made the same mistake myself.

The runtime doesn't offer the built in menus, which is one of the reasons
it
takes so much extra effort to distribute free runtimes. It isn't cost
efficient unless there's at least 10 or more users of the app. It's less
work so it's cheaper for the customer to buy 10 copies of retail Access
than
to pay for the labor to make the db app runtime ready.

Chris
Microsoft MVP

 

[Dale Fye]

Chris,

I've just got a set of standard menus developed in a code module (mod_Menus)
that I import into most of my applications. When I open my application, I
call the subroutines that define the shortcut menus for forms, reports,
textboxes, ...

Once you have these routines built, then it takes almost no extra work to
add them to an application. Now, if you are using the View -> Toolbars ->
Customize options to build the toolbars, I can see why you think it is time
consuming. I did that for a number of years, then found an article
somewhere that discussed doing it via code, and adopted that process almost
immediately.

Dale