HTA sysMenu property?

swmr · 03-21-2004, 03:30 AM

My observation is that the system menu (ie. window accessibility menu & keyboard support) is completely disabled when caption = "no"...

Now, the documentation doesn't seem to mention this, so before I consider rebuilding such features, I'd like to know if anyone has observed otherwise, please.

Willy Duitt · 03-21-2004, 05:38 AM

Apparently so. The only keyboard shortcut I noticed worked was the Find Panel.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>HTA Demo</TITLE>
  <HTA:APPLICATION ID="oHTA"
     APPLICATIONNAME="myApp"
	 BORDER="thin"
	 BORDERSTYLE="normal"
	 CAPTION="no"
	 ICON="graphics/face01.ico"
	 MAXIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
	 MINIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
	 SHOWINTASKBAR="no"
	 SINGLEINSTANCE="no"
	 SYSMENU="yes"
	 VERSION="1.0"
	 WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
  >

  <SCRIPT>

  /* This function also gets the value of commandLine,
     which cannot be set as an attribute  */
   
  function fnShowProp()
  {
    sTempStr = "applicationName  = " + oHTA.applicationName + "\n" + 
               "border           = " + oHTA.border          + "\n" +
               "borderStyle      = " + oHTA.borderStyle     + "\n" + 
               "caption          = " + oHTA.caption         + "\n" +
               "commandLine      = " + oHTA.commandLine     + "\n" +
               "icon             = " + oHTA.icon            + "\n" +
               "maximizeButton   = " + oHTA.maximizeButton  + "\n" +
               "minimizeButton   = " + oHTA.minimizeButton  + "\n" + 
               "showInTaskBar    = " + oHTA.showInTaskBar   + "\n" +
               "singleInstance   = " + oHTA.singleInstance  + "\n" +  
               "sysMenu          = " + oHTA.sysMenu         + "\n" + 
               "version          = " + oHTA.version         + "\n" + 
               "windowState      = " + oHTA.windowState     + "\n" ;
		  
    oPre.innerText = sTempStr;		  
  }
  </SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>The attribute values for this HTA are listed below. Click the button to get the corresponding property values.</P>
<PRE CLASS="clsCode">&lt;HTA:APPLICATION ID="oHTA"
     APPLICATIONNAME="myApp"
	 BORDER="thin"
	 BORDERSTYLE="normal"
	 CAPTION="no"
	 ICON="graphics/face01.ico"
	 MAXIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
	 MINIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
	 SHOWINTASKBAR="no"
	 SINGLEINSTANCE="no"
	 SYSMENU="yes"
	 VERSION="1.0"
	 WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
  &gt;
  </PRE>
  <BUTTON onclick="fnShowProp()">Retrieve HTA Property Values</BUTTON>
  <PRE ID="oPre">  
  </PRE>
  <HR>
  <BUTTON onclick="window.close()">Quit Application</BUTTON>
</BODY>
</HTML>

.....Willy

swmr · 03-21-2004, 05:54 AM

Yeah, that's too bad... some limitations of HTAs just seem unnecessary.

Thanks for the feedback, WD.