how to manually hide the menu ...

[Jeepy]

Hi,

I'm facing a problem with the display of the menu, if a function is called, the menu stays on the display until the function end, this is annoying if the function is very long ... is it therefore possible to hide the menu in the begining of the function (S60 v1-v2) ?

in the following example, the menu stays displayed until MyFunc() finished

ex:

void CMyApp::HandleCommandL(TInt aCommand)
{
if( aCommand==WhatIWantToDo)
MyFunc();
}

void CMyApp::MyFunc()
{
// this function is long ....
}

Thanks in advance !
Domi.

[skumar_rao]

looks like your function (MyFunc()) takes some time to finsh its task so it is blocking the flow. So solution is to make the function Async .

How to make a long running function to Asyn ? look in to wiki..

[ranjeet raj]

Hi,
check in this class CEikMenuBar.
use StopDisplayingMenuBar() method.
hope it will solve ur problem..

[Jeepy]

Hi,

thanks for this fast reply.

I had tried "CEikMenuBar( ).StopDisplayingMenuBar();" but this crashes the application ....

to complete my question, in fact, in my function (MyFunc()), I display a popup floating window but it displayed *behind* the menu - this is my main problem ....

Cheers,
Domi.

[ranjeet raj]

CEikMenuBar is a class.. create a object of this class.
use like obj.StopDisplayingMenuBar();

[Jeepy]

yes,

that was I have done :

CEikMenuBar* menuBar=iEikonEnv->AppUiFactory()->MenuBar();
if( menuBar )
menuBar->StopDisplayingMenuBar();

but menuBar is always = 0 ....

Domi.

[ranjeet raj]

put it in a method and use it before any key pressed...
like i am using for every switch case.

[Jeepy]

can you be more explicit with an example ... if I don't abuse ... I not really understand what you mean

BTW: thanks so much for trying to help me !

Domi.

[wizard_hu_]

You can also try if CEikButtonGroupContainer::Current works.

[Jeepy]

this doesn't help wizard_hu_ ...

what I don't understand is if I have a sub-menu, this one is hided before the call to the function but the main menu stays displayed ...

Domi.

[mohd kashif]

Hi use this..

CEikButtonGroupContainer::Current();
Cba()->MakeVisible(EFalse);

md.kashif

[Jeepy]

Thanks for this md.kashif, but this doesn't hide the menu when it's displayed ... this only disables the menu for the current session or until it's enbaled back.

Domi.

[Jeepy]

skumar_rao, I can make the process async but I don't want that the user performs any action before the end of the process of MyFunc().

Domi.

[wizard_hu_]

Are you talking about the menu or the cba buttons?
Menu can be modified in DynInitMenuPaneL...

[Jeepy]

I'm talking about the menu, I don't want to add or remove items (with DynInitMenuPaneL), I just want that the "window" containing the whole menu disappear directly when MyFunc() start because I want, in MyFunc(), to display a "floating window" with the message "Please wait..."; now, this floating window is behind the menu.

Domi.