I'm not seeing this. I made a quick menu in VFP7, and added a new bar to the View menu. I added your code below to the SKIP FOR, and "Blah" as the message. My MPR has this:

DEFINE BAR 2 OF _mview PROMPT "\< Reset Filter" ;
	SKIP FOR IIF(EMPTY(ga_trns[1]), .F., gn_ModMode <> 2 OR TYPE("pl_stkdisp") = "U" OR NOT pl_stkdisp) ;
	MESSAGE "blah"

I don't see the problem here on my end. Maybe it has something to do with the specifics of your menu. I also tried a custom menu with a bar called view, and it still works fine for me. Are you using the released version of VFP7, or a beta? Also make sure that _genmenu contains the path to the correct genmenu.prg, which should be located in the VFP7 home directory.

Note I also had to add an extra space before the Reset Filter to make the < not cause a problem...

Jim

>My .MPR ends up like this
>

DEFINE BAR 4 of View Prompt "\< Reset Filter" ;
>, gn_ModMode <> 2 OR TYPE("pl_stkdisp") = "U" OR NOT pl_stkdisp) ;
>Message "Blah"
>

>Which causes a compile error if I try and compile the project.
>
>
>Anyone encountered this or got any suggestions?
>
>TIA