Jim,

I found your reply today (10/15/01) when looking for an answer to the same problem described by Will in this thread. I made the modification you suggested and have had no further problems (execpt the usual ones I manage to create for myself).

Thank you so much for promptly responding to this concern. I hope this is the future MS pattern for dealing with relatively minor VFP fixes.

Regards,

Jim E

You wrote:
I see the problem now, and I sent it up the line.

It works OK if there is a space in the SKIP FOR prior to the first .F., but if there is not, the SKIP FOR is omitted. If I use the SKIP FOR below, it will happen. I didn't see it before because your posted SKIP FOR had the extra space.
IIF(EMPTY(ga_trns[1]),.F., gn_ModMode <> 2 OR TYPE("pl_stkdisp") = "U" OR NOT pl_stkdisp) ;

You can fix this by editing GENMENU.PRG, in the AddSkipFor function. I changed line 1250 from this:
IF ATC(".F.",GETWORDNUM(m.skip,1)) # 0

to this:
IF ATC(".F.",GETWORDNUM(ALLTRIM(m.skip),1)) = 1

and it seems to work fine for me. Please note that I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS EXTENSIVELY, but I think my logic is OK. Alternately, you can leave Genmenu as it was, and include spaces in your SKIP FOR prior to the first .F..

The problem is we should only drop the SKIP FOR if the .F. is first, not if it is anywhere in the first word.

Thanks for sending this through!