Hi Silvio,

Yes, I would be interested, but really only if it is not difficult for you to extricate it.
My current contract (until March of 2000) is not FP/VFP so there certainly is no urgency to this.

In general these "Windows standards" is another issue that I would like to get into, with many others, to "help" MS come up with more practical and real-world ways of doing things.
To this end, in fact, I plan to re-read Alan Cooper's "About Face..." and I have just ordered his "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" to get his insight and to try to correlate that with Windows standards that get in the way. Of course I will add my own as I feel they warrant (for instance, I do not remember him being too upset about menus disappearing on any click, but a few here and many users I've encountered simply hate it).
If that amounts to anything I will try to get something started here.

Cheers, and thanks for the offer

Jim N


>>If I can ever figure out a way to STOP menus (regular or popup) from disappearing on a click of an item, I will do so, standards be damned! Windows in general is far too fond of mousing!@#@! It seems more to be designed to enhance one's dexterity than with productive app usage. Have you had much need to go into Help, click on something, get a MODAL sub-list of related topics, click on one, find it isn't applicable and then find that the modal window is GONE so you have to start all over. Grrrrrr!
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>I have a modified version of menus. When my apps start a standard menu is built on the fly from a modified menu table AND a form with a treeview displays the whole menu tree. It's up to the user to open or close this form. I have customers that love it and others that find it useless. If you want to have a look at it i'll try to extricate it from the framework.
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>>There are lots of Windows "standards" that really get in the way rather than help user productivity, but it seems like it will take lots to change even smaller ones.
> I wholly agree.