>It works for me. Do you have an OKL for Alt+S defined? I did add
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>ON SELECTION PAD syspad OF _MSYSMENU wait window 'hello'
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>just to make sure the wait window showed up.

Ok, the reason this was not working was because I didn't have any item on that menu. With your code, I was able to detect that the menu was in fact in effect by the use of the hot key but was not showing it on the form because of no menu item.