Thank You John!!!

Resolved the problem. I moved the code to create the menu to the activate method of the top form. No more errors messages and the menu disables with _screen.activeform.windowstate = 1 in the skip for of the menu option for modal forms. I'll know next time not to believe everything I read in the manuals and books. I guess that is what they call experience.


I tried 'oMainform = this' in the init of the top level form but it didn't create a form object. I can reference the oMainform object if I create the form with 'do xxxx name oMainform'.

Thanks a lot - Hope to see you Wednesday.

Gaylen




>Hi Gaylen!
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>As to the hotkeys and the menu working right, in the main.prg of the application, assuming you have one, SET SYSMENU OFF. Then in the Init of the Top-Level form:
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>oMainForm=THIS
>DO mainmenu.mpr WITH THIS
>SET SYSMENU AUTO
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>Now in the menu, anything that refers to the top-level form should refer to oMainForm. By the way, the menu should be saved with "top level form" option set to true (Check out View - > General Options while editing the menu).
>
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>>I am converting an application to a top level application. I am having trouble with two items(so far).
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>>On the main screen(top level form) which has several fields, how do I get the cursor to focus on the first field when the program starts. Right now the screen doesn't seem activated until I use the mouse. I tried setfocus() in the init method, but that didn't have any effect. I need to use the mouse and click on the first field to start entering data.
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>>The menu on the main screen comes up fine, however, the shortcut keys do not work. Alt plus the underscored letter in the menu doesn't have any effect. I can click on the menu items and they work fine.
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>>Any suggestions
>>Thanks
>>Gaylen