Re: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Cushing
On 12/04/2016 07:28, Man-wai Chang wrote: POS systems are always using big buttons on touch screen. So you can convert Foxpro menu MNX definition into a button-based interface! http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ReadFoxProMenuFileToProduceButton-BasedMenu~Wiki That's great. Had to change it slig

Re: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-11 Thread Man-wai Chang
POS systems are always using big buttons on touch screen. So you can convert Foxpro menu MNX definition into a button-based interface! http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ReadFoxProMenuFileToProduceButton-BasedMenu~Wiki On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Peter Cushing wrote: > I'm sure this has been d

Re: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-11 Thread Peter Cushing
On 11/04/2016 14:03, Dave Crozier wrote: Peter, Yes, I used a top level form to control access to sub forms and leave it floating or minimised. It seems to work well, also I subclassed the buttons so you can freely change their style etc. Users seem to love it as it is very simple and I have a

RE: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-11 Thread Dave Crozier
which will automatically resize themse3lves. Given some free time I will finish it, but that is at a premium at the moment! Dave -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Peter Cushing Sent: 11 April 2016 13:55 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP

Re: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-11 Thread Peter Cushing
On 08/04/2016 13:04, Dave Crozier wrote: BIG BUTTONS are the answer Peter. We tried the same thing with our apps and it was a dismal failure. Then we had a rethink and just modified the user interface to use buttons that you just can not mistake!! Funnily enough lots of the people using the de

Re: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-08 Thread Peter Cushing
Hi Dave, Funnily enough we are just looking at putting some buttons on the main desktop and the option to customise them. Thanks, Peter Cushing IT Department WHISPERING SMITH On 08/04/2016 13:04, Dave Crozier wrote: BIG BUTTONS are the answer Peter. We tried the same thing with our apps a

RE: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-08 Thread Dave Crozier
BIG BUTTONS are the answer Peter. We tried the same thing with our apps and it was a dismal failure. Then we had a rethink and just modified the user interface to use buttons that you just can not mistake!! Funnily enough lots of the people using the desktop app also prefer this approach so I

Re: VFP top level menu on tablets and phones

2016-04-08 Thread Fernando D. Bozzo
You should make a second meny style buttons based, so those users can switch to them, or you can replace completely the menu system for something more touch-friendly 2016-04-08 13:32 GMT+02:00 Peter Cushing : > I'm sure this has been discussed before but can't seem to find much in the > archiv