Hi all,this is hema again. Few days back i posted a query on the forum asking help for adding a top level menu like Create / Action etc. Unfortunately i was not able to get a concrete answer whether it is possible or not in version 6.5 and above.
If possible is it legal to add a new top level menu to notes?
If so, any possible options for adding it?
Thank you all for the supported that you had extended for the previous query.
Thanks
bye
Subject: You can’t create a new top level menu with trad. Notes development, such as …
…LotusScript, C and/or C++ API development. Your only vanilla option is to use Notes Addin-menus, which you find more information about in the C API documentation.
However, since the Notes client is a Windows application, you might hook into the application in order to achieve what you want. My product; Notes Menu Launcher , facilitate Import Address Table (IAT) modifications to hook into the context menus in Notes. By doing that, I can do anything to the context menus themselves. The difficult part is that you don’t have any handle into the UI- or back-end context of the client, so you have to use other tricks in order “to know where you are”.
Modifying IAT’s can be difficult, but the results can be very cool. In principle it would possible to create any kind of menu using IATs in Notes - or any other Windows application for that matter. In fact, I did exactly this stunt on the R3 client for OS/2 back in the 90’s for a big travelling company. They wanted a “company menu”, containing only the approved company applications to be visible in all applications, so untrained users could be taught “go to the Company menu, and you’ll find anything you need right there”. So besides hooking into the Notes client, I also hooked into the Amadeus (a booking system) client and several other apps. The solution was rolled out on several hundreds of PCs. The core of the OS/2 stunt was based upon traditional Windows hooking. Nowadays, IAT modding provide much more flexibility and tremendously more power.
Please note that you hook into Notes in an unauthorized way by doing this. You can’t expect any support from Lotus/IBM or any other party here. You’re completely on your own.
Hope this sheds some lights on how you might achieve your goal.
Subject: RE: New Top level menu, very urgent
If it’s very urgent, then contact IBM directly and find out for sure. This is a user-to-user forum.