Did you try calling it from the keypress of the form instead and setting the form's keypreview to .t. (check for nKeycode = -8) What about the right-click of the form to launch the popup instead? Not sure what your end goal appearance is...

DEFINE POPUP mainpop MARGIN RELATIVE SHADOW COLOR SCHEME 4
DEFINE BAR 1 OF mainpop PROMPT "\<Goto 2nd Level"
ON BAR 1 OF mainpop ACTIVATE POPUP level2pop

DEFINE POPUP level2pop MARGIN RELATIVE SHADOW COLOR SCHEME 4
DEFINE BAR 1 OF level2pop PROMPT "Activate Help"
ON SELECTION BAR 1 OF level2pop HElP

ON KEY LABEL F9 DO openpops
ON KEY LABEL F11 DO closepops

*--OpenPops
ACTIVATE POPUP mainpop

*--ClosePops
DEACTIVATE POPUP mainpop
DEACTIVATE POPUP level2pop

>I have created a very simple popup menu when someone presses F9 on the keyboard. My code is:
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>define popup popfile in screen TITLE 'VELMORE Style Menu' margin relative color scheme 4
>define bar 1 of popfile prompt 'VELMORE Contract Colour Variance Report'
>on selection bar 1 of popfile do colvar
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>on key label F9 activate popup popfile at 0,0
>on key label F11 deactivate popup popfile at 0,0
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>What I would like to do though is catagorise my options i.e. having top level options then sub options. Can this be done???? For example I would like to have an option reports and then when you click on this option I would like the list of reports to show or be indented on the popup.
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>Also can someone tell me why my popup form is displayed but is still behind my mainform window. I have to move my main form to see the popup?