>I am creating a text to speech application and wish the product to speak the menu prompts when the user moves through the menu. The problem seems to be the fact that a menu does have a set focus method and therefore it is difficult (impossible??) to retrieve the actual bar that the cursor is positioned on. thanks for your reply I will keep searching and let you know if I find anything.
>FYI I am using an API supplied by microsoft (SAPI) to perform the text to speech, everything works great apart from the menus.

UNfortunately, VFP menus are not objects, and therefore do not have associated events. Another thing I considered is a function i nthe message clause of the DEFINE BAR, but that doesn't seem to work either. If this is ever going to work, I think it will have to be through the Windows API.