>>>How do you disable or gray out a menu from within
>>>a program?
>>
>>Menu designer allows to 'Skip' item (actually disable it) depending on some variable value. So, the only thing you have to do is to change this variable in the program.
>thanks... I want to disable the whole menu. Can you mymenu.enable = .f. ?

Disable whole menu? That's interesting idea. The normal way is to remove menu temporarily using PUSH MENU, SET SYSMENU TO, POP MENU.