Thanks, Jim but this applies to menus at the top of the vfp window, not a custom child form.

Cheers,
Walter,




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>I don't know, but message #464429 may provide some answer (I just remembered that I had something in favourites and didn't read in detail.)
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>good luck
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>>Hi fabio,
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>>>VFP Form menù, declared with DEFINE MENU ... BAR IN topFormName
>>>are "WINDOWS MENù", not VFP menù.
>>>Windows menù can to be exist only on Top Window Frame ( AS Top ), not on child window ( In Top form ).
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>>>In fact _SYSMENU is on _VFP window, not on _SCREEN window.
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>>Not sure what you´re saying, but I do want a menu in a child window, not a top level form.
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>>>You can only build a surrogate menu:
>>>DEFINE MENU ... IN childFormName
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>>>but VFP not remove graphics area, not activate it automatically ...
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>>I think you´re refering to DEFINE a MENU on the form. But this menu has a lot too desire. It is not graphical and has its problems in showing the menu popups with ON SELECTION PAD.
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>>I´ve drawn the conclusion that this is a major design flaw in VFP. I think I´ve got to go for a solution where I use command buttons as menupads to activate the menupopups. Certainly not easy and perfect, but I see no other solution than this.
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>>Walter,