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How To Use the New AutoVerbMenu Property of OLE Controls

Article ID: 156241

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2004

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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SUMMARY

The OLE Container Control and OLE Bound Control have a new property called AutoVerbMenu, which allows you to specify whether a pop-up menu appears when the user right-clicks an OLE object in a running form.

MORE INFORMATION

The list of items on the pop-up menu are the verbs supplied by the server. They are the same ones you see when Object is clicked on the Edit menu.

Steps to Demonstrate

Create a new form.
Add an OLE Container Control to the form.
Select Microsoft Excel Worksheet in the Insert Object dialog box.
Enter some data and deactivate the Excel object.
With the Excel object selected, click Worksheet Object on the Edit menu. The Edit and Open menu options appear.
Set the AutoVerbMenu and Enabled properties for the object to .T. - True.
Run the form and right-click the worksheet.

The same items (Edit, Open) that are available on the Edit menu are available to the user of your form when they right-click the worksheet object.

REFERENCES

Visual FoxPro Help, version 5.0; search one: AutoVerbMenu topic. (A right- click on this property in the Property window does not bring up this Help topic.)

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