No problem. I tried what you did, and couldn't get anything to work. This may be one of those things THAN CAN'T BE DONE. Now there is a challenge ...
>I'm sorry, I've got egg on my face. You were saying pad, and I was thinking bar. I was not able to do this with a pad. The best I could do was create a pad with a _ in it. I even tried padding the pad before it with a bunch of spaces. No cigar. Sorry.
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>>Yes I'm using the designer. Inserted a pad and deleted the prompt = Blank.
>>Stick it into an app and it dies. By a bar separator, do you mean horizontal or
>>vertical? I guess I should have been clearer in the beginning the pad I'm trying to some space between is the Main top level menu like File Edit View etc.
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>>>Are you using the menu designer? This is how I tested. I compiled the menu no problem. I haven't compiled into an app though... I guess this is where you're getting the problem?
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>>>As an aside, this interface is really out of the ordinary. Your user wouldn't settle for a bar separator?
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>>>>I'm probably missing something... I have a user who wants a lot of space between two item, e.g. Prompt 1 Prompt 3 Prompt 3 etc.
>>>>When I insert a blank Menu Prompt, and compile I get an error. Bad syntax and I get a period as the Menu Prompt.
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>>>>>>Is there a way to get a blank menu pad? No period, no nothing just a space. VFP 5.0
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>>>>>>Thanks
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>>>>>>ray
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>>>>>Yeah. just insert a pad and delete the caption. Or am I missing something...
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>>>>>btw, why would you want to do this?
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