>>>>I tried adding a brief WAIT after the RELEASE BAR in case it was timing, and also tried using ACTIVATE MENU after RELEASE to get the menu to refresh itself. Neither did the trick.
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>>>>So still trying to figure out how to resolve this.
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>>>Remove the whole vertical and build it from scratch?
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>>>I know it sounds expensive, but may not be. I once had to have two instances of browser object on two containers on the same page in a pageframe, and had all sorts of issues with bleedthrough, focus, and whatnot. In the end I resorted to removing instead of trying to hide, and creating a fresh one each time I needed it. It was blazingly fast, and all the issues were gone. That was seven years ago and I guess it still works - it did two years ago.
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>>You mean remove that whole popup and recreate it? Interesting idea.
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>Yup, popup's the word which I couldn't remember, personal pref... impediment. I never understood why they had separate code and vocabulary for menus, to apply one set for the vertical case, another for the horizontal case. They're the same otherwise.

[shrug] perhaps different nomenclature appeared due to historical reason? If not mistaken, (vertical) popups can appear outside of the context of the (horizontal) menu bar. Also, if I'm not mistaken (vertical) popup can be used as data source for lists, but (horizontal) menu bar can't.