Bob,
Doug Hennig wrote an article in the 09/1997 FoxTalk newsletter that talks about objectifying shortcut menus and having them interact with form controls. Take a look at http://www.pinnaclepublishing.com/FT/FTMag.nsf/Index/E62A27E207AC8FC4852568E80076F582?opendocument&login

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HTH.

>I have not used Shortcut menus all that much. but I am finding it a bit Non OOP'ish..
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>What I wanted, or looking to do, is allow for a user to right click on a listbox, to bring up a shortcut menu. which only have two things.
>1 open record.
>2 remove record.
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>while I can get the remove record function to work(buiding the sql stament right in the menu designer itslef) the open funcion should actually be a function call to the listbox's parent container, and a custom open property. which of couse is not avail with shortcut menus ' popups..
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>Maybe its just a rant, but it seems silly to me, to enable this sort of fuction that I would have resort to putting the entire open code in the shortcut proceedure file... that I cant call it from the calling container's custom method.
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>Is there a better way to activate a shortcut type menu, than doing what I have done. putting in the rightclick method, a call to do img.mpr... maybe its just the way I I am calling that menu..
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>Thanks at least for reading this rant.
>Bob Lee