Suppressing Last Reports Accessed List from File Menu in Designer

rbuser

Is there a way to suppress the listing of the last reports accessed
list at the bottom of the Designer File Menu? Better yet, is there a
way for this list not to get added to rbuilder.ini in the first place?

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Thanks,
Janine Anderson
Black Bear Systems, Inc.

digitalmetaphors

There is no runtime support for this built in. It is always going to try to
show the document history. About the only thing to try is to loop through
the designer's main menu, from the bottom moving upwards, disabling the menu
items for the different documents until the menu separator is encountered.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks for the info, Jim. One of the reasons this is coming up is
because I am attempting to force the use of the ini file in my exe
directory rather than winsys (we have many sites where the sys admin
removes write access to winsys from the users.) What I have
encountered is that my new ini file isn't read until the user does
something (like Save As) to force a write. Any ideas?

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Thanks,
Janine

digitalmetaphors

Use the TppDesigner.IniStorageName and IniStorageType properties to control
the type (file or registry based) and the location of the RBuilder.ini file.
This way you don't have to use the windows system directory, but rather your
working exe directory. This feature is only in RB 6.0 and higher.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Jim, I am using this method, however when the designer first opens
it appears to not read the file list in the ini if it is anywhere but
WINSYS.

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Thanks,
Janine

digitalmetaphors

Are you using RB 7? The latest version (RB 7.01) should work correctly. It
works fine in our tests here. There was a bug with the ini settings in one
of the initial RB 6.0 releases with this feature. If you can reproduce the
problem in RB 7, can you send an example to support@digital-metaphors.com


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

No, we are using 6.03. You mention this bug was in "one of the initial
RB 6.0 releases". Is there a later maintenance release for 6 that
fixes this?

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Thanks,
Janine

digitalmetaphors

I checked our logs and RB 6.03 shouldn't have a problem using the ini file
settings. RB 6.03 is the latest version of RB 6 before RB 7. Can you
reproduce the problem using RB 7.02 trial edition? If so, send us an example
which demonstrates the problem and we can research it in RB 7.02. If it
works correctly in RB 7.02 when it fails in RB 6.03, then you should upgrade
to RB 7.02.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors