James

Thanks for bringing this thread back to my attention.. I didn't realise it had continued without me... I also realised I had not marked Jim's answer as the solution.

Will

>Jim,
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>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).
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>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.
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>Regards,
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>Jim E
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>You wrote:
>I see the problem now, and I sent it up the line.
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>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) ;
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>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
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>to this:
>IF ATC(".F.",GETWORDNUM(ALLTRIM(m.skip),1)) = 1
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>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..
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>The problem is we should only drop the SKIP FOR if the .F. is first, not if it is anywhere in the first word.
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>Thanks for sending this through!