Thanks, you made me think about how I was approaching the issue and when i revisted the prompt options it became obvious that i need to put a numeric value there which did me no good at all.

thanks, jeffrey

>Er, it's rare indeed that I get a soln out before Sergey. And here I did and he STILL gets the credit! :-(
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>>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.
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>>I guess that I should have figured that Bar# wouldn't like an alpha input.
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>>thanks, jeffrey
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>>>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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