Try declaring nBarno private in each proc that you save BAR().
HTH
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>Hi! :) Pardon me for the extrememly long posting....
> I have this wierd problem. When I want to execute a *.pgr (via submenu option from the menu bar), I would like to return to that previous submenu option. I use the BAR() and a variable to keep track. It works fine until when I sometimes switch from one submenu option to another submenu option quickly (mouse) I sometimes call the wrong submenu and worse when I return to the previous option, it says something like : "menu index must be a positive number" - this I checked out is because the variable I used to keep track of the BAR() returns .f.
>
>Heres the psudocode:
>
>menu calls file.pgr via procedure
>-inside the menu procedure-
>DO pre_pgr_proc;
>DO file.pgr
>&&DO post_pgr_proc;
>
>-file.pgr-
> nBarno = BAR()
> .....executing other pgr files..(also changing the menu bar)
> .....redrawing previous menubar
> ACTIVATE POPUP (popname) BAR nBarno
>
>I think that maybe because of the redrawing of the menu, when I move my mouse to the other submenu option, BAR() fails???
>
>I am porting this code from FP DOS to VFP 3.0
>
>A question, is it true that if we define a variable within a *.pgr file, the variable is automatically released once we come to the end of the *.pgr file. The prg file has no PROCEDURE / FUCNTION definitions. As in the case of nBarno, does post_pgr_proc have access to nBarno?
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be very much appreciated!