They can be used whenever the menu exists in memory. It does not have to be active. The exception is that menus are not accessable from a modal form.


>Could someone explain the scope of the shortcut keys defined in the VFP menu builder. I have noticed that on a top-level form the Ctrl key shortcuts don't work unless the menu is active. I was hoping that they would fire globally for that app but don't know if that's possible.
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>Any ideas?