Thanks for the tip Agnes. It looks like I will probably be able to come up with a solution for all language runtimes by testing and incorporating your approach.

>David,
>
>I have no way to determine what popup is defined or not other then DISPLAY MEMO. IOW I've skipped the idea.
>
>For your question regarding the texts in the display memo.
>
>You can test yourself
>create a little exe that does nothing more then DISPLAY MEMORY TO FILE cFile
>on the MS explorer create a link to this exe
>alter the link and add parameters to the exe
>your.exe -L%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VFP\VFP8RDEU.DLL
>
>run it, check the cFile for the text ,alter the link for the next runtime and so on.
>
>if the code above fails replace %CommonProgramFiles% with the return of getenv('CommonProgramFiles')
>
>HTH
>Agnes
>>Thanks Agnes! Didn't even think of that!
>>
>>Do you know if 'Popup' and 'Popups' is included in every language runtime? Then I can just check for "Popup" $ my_line_string
>>or "Popups" .
>>
>>Regardless though, I am really hoping to find a better way to do this. One way would be to programmatically iterate through every menu choice - e.g. - assume that the menu is _msysmenu (which it is in my case) - get the pad names
>>then ACTIVATE MENU _msysmenu PAD (padname).
>>At that point I should be able to call 'popup()' and it should return the name of the current popup. No? But popup() is not behaving the way I expect it to. It always returns an empty string()
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi David,
>>>
>>>as long as you use the english runtime it will work. as soon as you use something different (lets say your exe runs on my comp) it might fail:
>>>[snip]
>>>

>>>_WRAP                                               Global                        L            .F.
>>>
>>>   81 Systemvariablen definiert
>>>
>>>Menü- und Blockdefinitionen
>>>
>>>    0 Menüs definiert
>>>
>>>Popup-Definitionen
>>>
>>>    0 Popups definiert
>>>
>>>Fensterdefinitionen
>>>

>>>[/snip]
>>>
>>>Agnes