a colleague of mine made a change to the genmenu. the change puts the menu name into a custom property of the toplevelform named "menuname". the menuname property must already exists. this allows for ACTIVATE MENU menuname NOWAIT, which updates the skip fors. have been using it for several days and it seems to work well.

interested in your thoughts. i am new to vfp and the idea of changing the genmenu is kind of scarey.

\*************************************************************************************
\* this code is unchanged
\*************************************************************************************
\LPARAMETERS oFormRef, getMenuName, lUniquePopups, parm4, parm5, parm6, parm7, parm8, parm9
\LOCAL cMenuName, nTotPops, a_menupops
\IF TYPE("m.oFormRef") # "O" OR ;
\ LOWER(m.oFormRef.BaseClass) # 'form' OR ;
\ m.oFormRef.ShowWindow # 2
\ MESSAGEBOX(<>)
\ RETURN
\ENDIF
\m.cMenuName = IIF(TYPE("m.getMenuName")="C",m.getMenuName,SYS(2015))
\IF TYPE("m.getMenuName")="L" AND m.getMenuName
\ m.oFormRef.Name = m.cMenuName
\ELSE
\*************************************************************************************
\* Changed code to provide access to SKIP TO in SDI forms - Joe Hernandez 9/15/98
\*************************************************************************************
\ IF !TYPE("m.oFormRef.MenuName")="U"
\ m.oFormRef.MenuName = m.cMenuName
\ ENDIF
\ENDIF