Thanks. I just figured that out. I'm either going to have to change them to pads to do what I was thinking or change the way that I set skip.

I guess that I should have figured that Bar# wouldn't like an alpha input.

thanks, jeffrey

>The BARs can only have predefine system names or numbers.

>DEFINE POPUP clientsele MARGIN RELATIVE SHADOW COLOR SCHEME 4
>DEFINE BAR 1 OF clientsele PROMPT "First Prompt"
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>>>Would help if you posted the code snippet.
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>>This is a large menu so I've just posted the menu definition down to where the error occurs:
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>>the a1 is where i get the variable not found.
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>>SET SYSMENU TO
>>SET SYSMENU AUTOMATIC
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>>DEFINE PAD Client OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT "Client Select" COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
>>	KEY ALT+C, ""
>>DEFINE PAD iasmain OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT "IAS Main Menu" COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
>>	KEY ALT+I, ""
>>DEFINE PAD utl OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT "UTL Menu" COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
>>	KEY ALT+U, ""
>>DEFINE PAD _msm_edit OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT "\<Edit" COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
>>	KEY ALT+E, "ALT+E" ;
>>	MESSAGE "Edits text or current selection"
>>DEFINE PAD exit OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT "E\<xit" COLOR SCHEME 3 ;
>>	KEY ALT+X, ""
>>ON PAD Client OF _MSYSMENU ACTIVATE POPUP clientsele
>>ON PAD iasmain OF _MSYSMENU ACTIVATE POPUP iasmainmen
>>ON PAD utl OF _MSYSMENU ACTIVATE POPUP utlmenu
>>ON PAD _msm_edit OF _MSYSMENU ACTIVATE POPUP edit
>>ON SELECTION PAD exit OF _MSYSMENU exit
>>
>>DEFINE POPUP clientsele MARGIN RELATIVE SHADOW COLOR SCHEME 4
>>DEFINE BAR a1 OF clientsele PROMPT "First Prompt"
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