>>>>>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?

Hi David. DEFINE MENU IN WINDOW WindowName... Just a thought though - are you not trying to solve the wrong problem in that perhaps its just easier to upgrade the pc rather than develop a whole workaround for what is apparently an old and slow pc.