>I'm a little bit confused here, are you porting your FPD app to FPW or VFP? If converting to FPW, a simple fondation READ will do. If converting to VFP, AFAIK, there's no way of activating the menu without a READ EVENTS.

In my first months of FPW, before I learned about the foundation read, I used something like:

PUBLIC m.Quitting

m.Quitting = .F.

DO WHILE !m.Quitting
    ACTIVATE MENU _MSYSMENU
ENDDO

and of course there was a menu option (usually named Quit [wow, what a concept]) that set m.Quitting = .T.. :-)