Hi Dragan,

So I'll now ask the questions I usually ask, but this time *not* about VFP but about Windows 'Standards'. . .

HOW do WE communicate to the powers that be our problems and requirements and wishes regarding the Windows "Standards"???. . . HOW would we *also* know that they are/have LISTENED???

Funny, but I remember people here reporting that Mr. Gates himself, at some keynote address at some big MS conference, stating that MS HAS TO GET CLOSER TO ITS **USERS**.
Not much evidence yet that anything at all has come of that.

Cheers,

Jim N

>>I wonder why, for instance, menus disappear once a selesction is made? Couldn't it stick around in case you want to make another chioce from the same menu? At the very least, couldn't we be given a PREFERENCE setting for that?
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>You've touched my sore spot, Jim. I've already caught myself inventing various workarounds to build a wide circle to walk around menus and not use them all - just for that reason. In the matter of fact, I do have a way to keep the menus on, but it requires two DO levels per one menu level, and requires generating each popup on the fly (or just activating it, if it's already defined), with the only trouble of it being impossible (so far) to guess where to show it, at what coordinates. If I use my way of building menus, I lose the automatic positioning.
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>>I've already griped elsewhere about my pet peeves with Help, and the dispaareaing windows and extraneous mousing it forces. It clearly does NOT have the user in mind, but seems to have the wonders of the MOUSE as its main focus.
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>Try to count things you had to do to keep your apps still usable with keyboard only.