Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Defining toolbar bands

A band (also referred to in Progress Dynamics as a menu structure) is a logical container for a series of items. It serves as a grouping mechanism for a set of items that should be used together. You can visualize it as a submenu in a menu, or as a band (a visual group of buttons) in a toolbar. To help organize bands in the Toolbar Designer’s TreeView, bands are grouped into the following subgroups:

MenuBar Bands — Top-level menu bars that appear on a container.
Submenu Bands — Menu bands that are parented to the menu bar or to another submenu.
Toolbar Bands — Bands that only appear in a toolbar.
Menu & Toolbar — Bands that can appear in both a toolbar and a submenu.

Bands are also hierarchical in nature and can contain child bands. You can identify an item within the band as having a child band. In a menu, this creates a submenu for the item. You can reuse bands in multiple SmartToolbars.

To define a new band:

Expand the Bands node in the TreeView, then expand the appropriate subnode.
Right-click on the node and select Add Band, as shown:

Figure 12–13 shows the fields that you can enter to define a new band.

Figure 12–13: Defining toolbar bands