>Fred,
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>This has nothing to do with forms. I'm talking about a scenario where the system is sitting at the main menu, and the timer fires of a set of cleanup tasks at intervals. The cleanup tasks are seldom calling VFP forms.
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>I need to know, before firing the tasks, which menu is currently open, if any.
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>-- jas
IC, but I don't think there is any way to tell where the menu is currently sitting until an option has actually been selected, not just highlighted. In VFP 6, the menu just stays where it's at, and is not effected by the timer. I take it that's not the way it works in VFP5...