>THANKS AGAIN

You're welcome.

>You've hit upon two very perplexing and frustrating issues, namely
>(1) checking for the existence of the browse window - ??? any ideas?

I mention a timer. You'd have to play around with the interval, but I'd start at 1 second and work downward. In the Timer Event:

IF NOT WEXIST(ALIAS())
  POP MENU _MSYSMENU
ENDIF

Personally, I prefer to use a form an a grid and simulate the browse, but then the menu wouldn't be available. The advantage would be that I'd just put the POP in the Destroy event.

>(2) the lack of documentation

I didn't really look that hard, so I don't know if it exists or not. Perhaps there's a KB article documenting it. I don't know.

>I've spent a whole day tring to get some understanding of this. It seems that question has come up a few times and I don't see any solutions.
>
>Your suggestion to use getpad and nowait were real interesting; however I couln't get and further along either because of my poor coding or how well the system is trying to hide this info.

This was a pure SWAG on my part. I might try to find this stuff at home to-night or maybe tomorrow morning (I'm about to leave for the day). If I come up with any useful code, I'll post it to you.