From the December 2009 Issue of Prestwood eMag

Paradox OPAL: Wicked Coding Tasks: Add an Option to Paradox's Tool's Menu By Mike Prestwood

Posted 16 years ago on 6/10/2008 Take Away: How to add an option to the tools menu. KB101176

The following code is from Workbench for Paradox and it adds Workbench as a menu option to the Tools menu. For clarity, I simplified the routine a bit. When I have time I'll come back and add comments. In the meantime, if you have questions, contact me.

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method cmAddToTools()
 var
      sRead   	String ;From Registry.
      sFirstTime 	String
      sGet   		String ;From getFileName.
 endVar

 try
    sFirstTime = getRegistryValue(kKeyWorkbench, "FirstTime", regKeyCurrentUser)
 onFail
    sFirstTime = "No"
 endTry

 try
   sRead = getRegistryValue(kKeyTools, "&Workbench", regKeyCurrentUser)
 onFail
   sRead = ""
 endTry

 sGet = getFileName()

 if (sRead <> sGet or sFirstTime = "Yes") then
    cmStartupClose()
    setRegistryValue(kKeyWorkbench, "FirstTime", "No", regKeyCurrentUser)
    f.openAsDialog(sWBPath + "Dialogs\\Welcome")
    f.wait()
 endIf

 if sRead <> sGet then
   setRegistryValue(kKeyTools, "&Workbench", sGet, regKeyCurrentUser)
   setRegistryValue(kKeyWorkbench, "WorkbenchPath", sGet, regKeyCurrentUser)
   msgInfo("Installation Note", sGet + "\n\nWorkbench installed (or reinstalled) to your Tools menu. 

                        The next time you run Paradox, select Tools | Workbench to open Workbench.")
 endIf
endmethod

Manually Adding Menu Item's to Paradox

You can use the code above to add menu items to Paradox or manually by altering the registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\COREL\PARADOX\9.0\PXDLITE

You can add menu commands to the following menus:

• File
• Tools
• Help
• File | Open (Use "Open" key name.)
• File | New (Use "New" key name.)

Inside a key, you place values corresponding to the menu command you want to add. To add a keyboard shortcut, precede the letter with an ampsersand. Precede the menu's value with an integer value (starting with 0) followed by a comma to specify a particular order for your menu item. The filename can be any Paradox form or script (delivered or not) as well as a program file (.EXE, .COM, .BAT, and .PIF), or .DLL. All other filenames are ignored.

Dave Smith

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