>>I have a foxpro menu running in a top level form that accesses methods on that form by _screen.activeform.method(). On the whole this seems to work fine, but every now and again Foxpro seems to lose itself (or it could be my coding!) and present me with an error method() doesn't exist.
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>>Is there a better way of accessing these methods from the menu.
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>>Many thanks in advance for any help on this subject
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>You can disable the bars dynamically:
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>DEFINE BAR ..... SKIP FOR TYPE("_screen.activeform")=="U"
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Many thanks Fabio, I will give that a go