This subroutine turns off the Crystal Ball toolbar and menus so you can create applications with your own custom interface for novice Crystal Ball users. These custom applications can be written with the Crystal Ball Developer Kit to run on Crystal Ball version 7.2.2 or later, including 11.x or later.
You can give users the ability to run, reset, and single-step through simulations by creating your own user interface controls with Visual Basic or VBA that call appropriate Crystal Ball Developer Kit subroutines and functions. You can also use the Crystal Ball Developer Kit macros to create controls that extract data, create charts and reports, and more. When you run simulations, the Crystal Ball Control Panel is switched off by default. However, you can use Visual Basic or VBA to switch it on again using appropriate calls to CB.Simulation or CB.RunPrefsND. Even if the Control Panel dialog is displayed, though, the Run, Analyze, and Help menus are hidden.
Your application can use any of the Crystal Ball features accessible through the Developer Kit. If users have appropriate licenses, you can also include Predictor time-series analyses in your applications and users can run simulations in Extreme speed.
Unless otherwise specified, defaults are pulled from the user’s preference files. These defaults can be set through Crystal Ball’s preference dialogs or preferences macro calls (such as CB.RunPrefsND) in the Crystal Ball Developer Kit.
For more information, see Crystal Ball Runtime..