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Backstage: Interesting, But…
Office 2010’s one major suite-wide interface change is Backstage View, a reworking of multiple fundamental pieces of functionality that’s debuting in all the Office apps. Flashy name aside, it’s the successor to the old File menu, which was the one menu that survived more or less intact in Office 2007, even though it was renamed the Office Button and hung off a little Office logo rather than the word “File.”

Backstage View is where you go to perform tasks such as opening, saving, and printing files, as well as tweaking an app’s options–most of the things you do in Office that don’t involve document editing. It does away with many of the dialog boxes associated with the old File menu in favor of a full-screen window that replaces your document view. What it provides, mostly, is enough elbow room to show you lots of related functionality at once–for instance, the Print section incorporates a preview, so you always see how your settings will affect output without having to detour into a separate Print Preview mode.

MENU oMenu1 POPUP 2007
 MENUITEM "Ende" ACTION oWnd:End() FILE ".\bmp16x16\ende.bmp";
MESSAGE "Programm beenden"
ENDMENU

   oTBackStage = TRBtn():New( 31, 2, 70, 20, , { || oTBackStage:ShowPopup()},;
      oRBar , ,,,,"Datei", , .T., .T.,,,,,, , oMenu1,,,,,,,,,,,,, aClrMenu1, nRGB( 125, 172, 215 ),;
      nRGB( 65, 106, 189 ) )

oTBtn0 = TRBtn():New( 4, 0, 70, 20, "..\bitmaps\rbnmenu.bmp", { || backstage() }, oRBar,;
                         ,,,,,, .T., .T.,,,,,, "POPUP", oMenu,,,,,,,,,,,,, aClrMenu1, nRGB( 125, 172, 215 ),;
                         nRGB( 65, 106, 189 ) ) 



function backstage()

  DEFINE DIALOG backstageDlg;
    FROM 4, 1 TO 25, 70 STYLE nOR( WS_POPUP)  

 
 ACTIVATE DIALOG backstageDlg ON PAINT ShowPopUp( 1, 1 )   
   

return nil

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------//

function BuildPopup()

   local oMenu

   MENU oMenu POPUP                             // Creating a POPUP
      MENUITEM "Open"
      MENU
         MENUITEM "New" MESSAGE "New whatever..."
         SEPARATOR
         MENUITEM "Get" ;
            MESSAGE "Get whatever..." ;
            ACTION cGetFile( "Clipper DataBase (*.dbf) | *.dbf |" + ;
                             "Paradox DataBase (*.db) | *.db",;
                             "Please Select" )
      ENDMENU
      MENUITEM "Close" 
      MENU
         MENUITEM "New..."  ACTION  backstageDlg:end()
         SEPARATOR
         MENUITEM "Old..."
      ENDMENU
      MENUITEM "Select" MESSAGE "Select whatever..."   FILE "..\bitmaps\16x16\a-z.bmp"
      MENUITEM "All" ACTION MsgInfo( "Todo" ) MESSAGE "Everything"
      SEPARATOR
      MENUITEM "More..." ACTION MsgInfo( "More" ) ;
         MESSAGE "This is just an example"
   ENDMENU

return oMenu

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------//

function ShowPopup( nRow, nCol )

   oMenu := BuildPopup()

   ACTIVATE POPUP oMenu WINDOW backstageDlg AT nRow, nCol

return nil

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------//