>I've used the vfp designer to produce a menu popup of 'hotkeys' with 55 items on it.
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>The resulting menu displays all items until or unless I do something else in the app, ike change the order of the data I'm looking at. Then it only displays the first 40 items and loses the scroll arrows. (but it still activates even the 'hidden' items)
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>I can't see any obvious connection between whats going on elsewhere in the app and the number of items a menu will display.
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I'm afraid I don't know what's going on, but I do have a UI hint for you- a menu with 55 items all in a row is a cumbersome menu. Try categorizing come of the functions, and breaking them into levels. This will make the menu easier to use as well as get rid of your problems.