Re: looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

Very Nice! I never noticed that before.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 4:34 PM Rick Schummer profox@whitelightcomputing.com wrote:

GoFish5 has a menu outliner feature if you have a MNX selected in the file list. It is on the "toolbar" above the search results list. Check out the icon that looks like a dropdown menu.

• <File

•  \<New...
  

•  Close
  

•  -----
  

•  \<Save
  

•  \<Cancel
  

•  Delete
  

•  -----
  

•  \<Refresh
  

•  -----
  

•  \<Queries & Reports...
  

•  Page Set\<up...
  

•  -----
  

•  Chan\<ge Password...
  

•  \<Options...
  

•  \<Database Utilities...
  

•  -----
  

•  E\<xit
  

• <Edit

•  \<Undo
  

•  Re\<do
  

•  -----
  

•  Cu\<t
  

•  \<Copy
  

•  \<Paste
  

•  -----
  

•  Se\<lect All
  

• <View

•  \<People...
  

• E<xports/Imports

•  \<Who's Coming List
  

• <Navigation

•  First
  

•  Prior
  

•  Next
  

•  Last
  

• <Tools

•  \<List...
  

•  \<Filter...
  

•  \<Clear Filter
  

•  \<Search...
  

• <System

•  \<Security...
  

•  \<Error Log...
  

• <Window

•  \<Cascade
  

•  -----
  

• <Help

•  \<Contents
  

•  -----
  

•  \<About
  
  

Rick White Light Computing, Inc.

www.whitelightcomputing.com

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Jeff Roberts Sent: November 8, 2021 11:08 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

I've inherited a couple of fairly large VFP apps and I have been trying to read the menu files and build some documentation automatically. I am more or less wanting to process a mnx file to build either a tree-view type document or just a plain text list that includes how to get to the menu item and what command it runs. I have looked at the code for genmenu, genmenux, the oop menu project on vfpx, as well as a few snippets I found online but I am still very confused on what the records and fields mean. I didn't think I was too bad of a FoxPro programmer but trying to trace the code in genmenu makes me feel pretty dumb honestly. I can get at the prompt and the command it runs without too much issue but I am struggling trying to document the hierarchy (from the main menu to an option on a submenu or sub-submenu. Could anyone point me to some documentation for foxpro menu tables, or some fairly simple code I could read to try and wrap my head around how it works? Thanks!

-- Jeff Roberts | jefflroberts@gmail.com

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