Jim

I was working on this problem more and I got the paste and copy menu items to be disabled. However I cannot figure out a way to make the cut disabled.

Thanks for the help,

Jim



>>No none of the items were disabled on the menu even when the clipboard was empty.
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>>>>That is what I did and for some did it doesn't work.
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>>>Jim,
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>>>What happened? Were the items disabled in the menu or what?
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>Jim,
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>I just made a form with two textboxes. I created a short cut menu with the menu designer that had the three pads for cut copy and paste wusing _med_cut, _med_copy and _med_paste. I called the menu from the rightclick of each textbox.
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>I ran the form, typed ABC into the first textbox and highlighted with the mouse. I right clicked and selected copy, then clicked in the other textbox and right clicked and chose paste. The text was copied and pasted.
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>Maybe you should try the menu in a simpler form before you put it in the complex one. The only thing I can think of 9s that there is no text selected when you choose cut or copy.
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>BTW, The menu items seem to always be enabled, so you may need to use the skip for to disable them when _cliptext == "".