First of all, I highly recommend reading the chapter in the DevGuide.doc on Menus.

RE: Where is the "project" pad coming from and how to I disable it? Why isn't the "activities" pad showing?

You can check out the LoadChildren method of the MainMenu class in the aMenus library.

RE: creating a sub-menu...

You essentially set the cSubPopup property of your bar class that you want the sub popup to appear under to the name of your sub popup class. This sub popup will load the bars for the sub menu.

HTH

>I am doing my first project with MM and having problems figuring out where to access the default MM pads. When I made the project with Jump Start I have a pad "Project" and I am missing the pad "Activities". I see "Activities" pad and popup in the amenus class and they are enabled but they don't show up. Where is the "project" pad coming from and how to I disable it? Why isn't the "activites" pad showing?
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>Second question. In some VFP systems it is normal to have a set of bars drop from the first set of bars, how do I do this in MM? I have an example below for a reports menu pad. A lot of the time I can't use the MM reporting options because many of the reports are not going to printers, they are formatted and exported to Excel spreadsheets.
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>Menu Example
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>- cPad & Cpopup(reports)
>-- cPopbar (accounting)
>--- class?? (accounts overdue)
>--- class?? (accounts closed)
>--- class?? (vendor activity analysis)
>-- cpopbar (personnel)
>--- class??(Employee hours by dept)
>--- class??(New employee shift assignment)
>-- cpopbar (engineering)
>--- class?? (machine failures)
>--- class?? (machine use by shift)