Nevermind this question. It seems I asked something a little far fetched just for a forum...
I can see it is easy enough to create a menu using C++, just from tinkering with it, and can even embed the menu into the DLL.
However, what I can also see is that it would be incredibly difficult to associate the menu with a DBPro program. For this purpose, Visual Basic would work better, which, unfortunately, I do not have access to, nor the money to purchase.
For those out there who come across this same problem, and search the forums for an answer, here are the options:
1: Write your menu directly into your program
2: Gain access to calls in the Windows API, so that you may code the menu into an included file in your program more easily and efficiently...
The second choice would be he most difficult, but would produce the best results... This leads up to another question:
Does any guru out there know how to gain access to the API through the DBPro editor directly? There must be a way, I know. Matter of fact, I will eventually know it, even if it's too tough to answer here... Perhaps simply including the neccessary native Windows DLL's would do it?
To repay the DBPro community for help with this, once it is known to me how to do it, I will write a utility that will make this much easier for others. The utility will work by creating an executable file that is hidden when run.. From there, the user could call the file from their main DBPro source (kinda like a class in C++), and have the file create the menu for them each time the program is run.
Hope someone can help, and hope that perhaps I will in times to come...
Whenever I post a tough question like this, I'll do my best to give something back to the community, such as the utility mentioned, so nobody gets annoyed with my constant prattling ROFL x-d
