Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development
Using the Toolbar and Menu Designer
In the Progress Dynamics framework, a SmartToolbar is a standard dynamic object you use in your applications. The SmartToolbar is entirely data-driven. It supports both menu functions and toolbar buttons that drive an application or application window. The Toolbar and Menu Designer is the tool that you use to create menu and toolbar items. You can also define the actions the items initiate and group items into bands and complete toolbars. With the Container Builder, you can then place a custom toolbar object onto any window in your application. Progress Dynamics provides a large number of prebuilt toolbars and bands to use as a starting point when appropriate.
This chapter describes the Toolbar and Menu Designer. It guides you in creating toolbars and customizing existing ones. This chapter also describes the steps required to build a new toolbar and place it into an application window. There is also a completed sample that illustrates how you can use a toolbar to organize your application and provide much of the application’s behavior. This chapter discusses the following topics:
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