Menu limitations (OpenInsight Specific)
At 20 JUN 2001 12:50:31PM [email protected] wrote:
To all,
I think I've hit the limit on Menu items because things that worked no longer work ;-( Doing some research, Cam Purdy indicated that the Presenation server impose a limit of 256 menu items.
I've been thinking of ways to get around this. One thought that came to mind (danger, danger) is to designate an item within my existing MDI frame to call another MDI frame for the spillover items. I suggest this because our app have a couple of optional modules. All item for these optional module could logically be place into a separate MDI frame. That is, we move items out of MDI frame #1 into MDI frame Option#1 and/or MDI frame Option#2 to circumvent the Menu limitation. Is this kosher? Do I run the risk of messing something else up? Will this cause out-of-memory condition?
Any thoughts, comments, suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ray Chan
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At 20 JUN 2001 04:19PM Robert Lee wrote:
Ray
We hit a similar problem some time ago. Our app must have over 30 modules to it (given up counting). So we have implemented a 'layered' menu structure so that each module has its own menu. The most important modules are accessed from the main menu. One of the second layer menus calls about 20 "sub modules".
This keeps each menu managable and trainable. I personally think the limit (whatever it is) forces a good discipline to keep menus to a reasonable size.
In our case, we use SDI forms for menus and only use MDI for multi-page data entry screens, but it doesn't really matter either way. MDI's can call other MDI's if thats the way you want to do it.
Robert
At 20 JUN 2001 09:16PM [email protected] wrote:
Robert,
In our case, we use SDI forms for menus and only use MDI for multi-page data entry screens, but it doesn't really matter either way. MDI's can call other MDI's if thats the way you want to do it.
Thanks for sharing your solution. It's comforting to know that others have overcome this limitation following the same general process. Now if this menu limitation were to vanish, it would be even better .
Using smaller menu names, as was mentioned in a thread you started a week or two ago, also helps.
With regards to my other posting which you also responded, I have been using smaller menu names, but to no avail. I have hit some mystical limit.
Ray
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