>>My client is reporting that occasionally, almost all of the menu bars in a rather complex app are becoming disabled. In their latest report, what I'm seeing is that all the menu pads are enabled, but all bars are disabled on all the pop-ups except for one. The popup where the bars are enabled is appended to the menu when a particular form opens; all the others are part of the base menu for the app.
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>>While some of the bars that are disabled have SKIP FOR conditions, others do not, so I'm pretty sure this isn't SKIP FOR.
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>>The form to which the enabled menu belongs is not modal.
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>>This happens after the user has been working with the app for a bit. I've seen it once or twice, though not recently.
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>>There are, of course, no specific steps to replicate this. This is the app I've mentioned before where we're running a VFP EXE for the UI that communicates with a couple of VFP COM EXEs that are doing stuff in the background.
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>>Anybody have any suggestions?
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>Sounds most likely a hanging of a modal form (not being released). But an alternative solution might be to consider to build the menus using Herman Tan's Owner Drawn Menu Class. I have used this now for about a year and not had any problems. There is a builder available to convert a standard menu to the prg for the OD menu. This is available as a download from Herman Tan. Also, the GKK Menu Editor that I wrote now supports generating a menu for this class as well.
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>http://www.bdurham.com/vfprocks/hermantan/downloads.htm

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm hesitant to do anything that drastic as this is one of only a couple of bugs left to be fixed before we ship (I hope). So I want to make the minimum changes that I can to solve it.

Tamar