Thanks. The menu X, 0,0 / menu X, 0,1 worked to solve my problem.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Robert Purves <listrp@...> wrote:
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> On 27/10/2008, at 5:40 AM, Pierre Zippi wrote:
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>> In moving to appearance, modal windows seem to not operate like they
>> did in standard basic. In standard any attempt to select other menu
>> items while a modal window was open were blocked. Now in appearance, I
>> can have a modal window open AND send my program into oblivion by
>> selecting another menu item.
>> I'm using FB4.4.3. I want the user to open a window with options for
>> drawing a chart. While the options window is open, the user should
>> only be able to make selections in that window.
>> How do I lock out the menu while the modal window is open?
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> You could simply disable the menus while your modal window is open.
> menu _mFile, 0, 0
> menu _mWhatever, 0, 0
> ...
>
> and then re-enable them when the window is closed.
>
> Robert P.
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