>>>I would like to put a check mark on the left of a menu
>>>selection off the main menu in my program.
>>>I would like to do this when that menu selection has
>>>focus. If the menu option is checked, I want to do something.
>>>any ideas?
>>
>>Check the help file for SET MARK OF...BAR. When the user clicks the menu item, issue the command to do whatever you're trying to accomplish. I'd use a global system variable and in the code check it's value. The code to do this might look something like:
>>
>>gOwhatever.IsMarked = NOT gOwhatever.IsMarked.
>>IF gOwhatever.IsMarked
>> * Do what's necessary for .T.
>>ELSE
>> * Do what's necessary for .F.
>>ENDIF
>>
>>hth,
>>
>>George
>Hi George and thanks for your answer. I did check the help, but
>in vfp50, I do not know where to put the code since there
>is not a ckick event in the menu options. When the user clicks
>a menu option, should I just run a program and that program will
>do whatever??

In the above code you could add:

SET MARK OF BAR nMenuItemNumber OF MenuName TO gOwhatever.IsMarked

after the IF/ELSE/ENDIF statement block. The issue:

SHOW MENU ALL

to update.

hth,

George