How the Menu Font Is Determined in FoxPro for Windows

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0
• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5 and 2.5a

SUMMARY

User-defined menus that are not created as a part of _msysmenu will be displayed in the MS Sans Serif font unless the current output window's font is FoxFont, in which case FoxFont will be used.

Below are three code examples that demonstrate this behavior and one example related to cross-platform applications.

Menus that are created as part of _msysmenu will always be displayed in MS Sans Serif; for example:

   DEFINE PAD test OF _msysmenu PROMPT "Test"
   ON PAD test OF _msysmenu ACTIVATE POPUP test

   DEFINE POPUP test

   FOR CNT = 1 TO 10
      DEFINE BAR CNT OF test PROMPT "test" + LTRIM(STR(CNT))
   ENDFOR

MORE INFORMATION

Sample 1

   DEFINE MENU test
   DEFINE PAD mypad OF test PROMPT "My Pad"
   ON PAD mypad OF test ACTIVATE POPUP test

   DEFINE POPUP test
   FOR CNT = 1 TO 10
      DEFINE BAR CNT OF test PROMPT "test" + LTRIM(STR(CNT))
   ENDFOR

   ACTIVATE MENU test NOWAIT

Sample 2

   DO WHILE .T.
      @ 2,2 PROMPT "test1"
      @ 2,12 PROMPT "test2"
      MENU TO x
   ENDDO

Sample 3

   DIMENSION arr(10)

   FOR CNT = 1 TO 10
      arr(CNT) = "test" + LTRIM(STR(CNT))
   ENDFOR

   @ 2,2 MENU arr,10
   READ MENU TO VAR

Cross-Platform Applications

If you are developing applications that are to be run on both the MS-DOS and Windows platforms using the same code but without using platform-specific conditional statements, set the output window to FoxFont to ensure portability.

If you are using platform-specific statements, the following code fragment shows the best way to handle these:

   IF _WINDOWS
      Do Windows-specific commands
   ELSE
      Do MS-DOS -specific commands
   ENDIF