>>>>Does anyone know of any trick to hide the staggered building of menus being so obvious on a slow machine.
>>>>Eg if I do...
>>>>do MyMenu1.mpr
>>>>do MyMenu2.mpr
>>>>do MyMenu3.mpr
>>>>
>>>>So what I'd like to have happen is
>>>>-freeze screen menu display-
>>>>do MyMenu1.mpr
>>>>do MyMenu2.mpr
>>>>do MyMenu3.mpr
>>>>-unfreeze screen menu display-
>>>>
>>>>i.e. something similar to form.lockscreen method.
>>>>
>>>>any ideas?
>>>
>>>_screen.lockscreen=.t. ?
>>
>>no joy :-(, but good suggestion. I wasn't aware that _screen had that property
>
>David, can you add the menus to the form while the form visible property is .f.. Then change to .t. when the menus have been added?

The menu is the _msysmenu in the main(_screen) window. Is it easy to move menus to the form(s) itself?