Move your popup menu to a third (non-MDIChild) form -- frmPopup -- and
rename frmTrouble to frmGoodGuy.  To put up the popup, just code

    frmPopup.PopupMenuRoot.Visible = True
    PopupMenu frmPopup.PopupMenuRoot

in the event where you're putting up the popup menu.  To communicate the
popup menu selection back to frmGoodGuy, create a global integer in a
module, have frmPopup's menu click event set it to a value that represents a
particular menu option, then code a handler routine in frmGoodGuy with a
case structure to handle every possible menu option value.  You can call the
handler right after the PopupMenu instruction.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Alstom [mailto:Alstom@v...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:55 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Menu woes


Dear Members of the List,

OK here's the scenario : I have a MDI Form containing a few menu items. One
of the menu items load a form (MDI child - let's call it frmTrouble) which
in turn also contains some menu items. frmTrouble's root menu items' Visible
property is set to False (I use this menu as a popup menu on frmTrouble).

My problem is this - whenever frmTrouble is loaded, its menu items replace
the menu items of its parent MDI form. Can spmeone please suggest a way to
prevent this from happening?

Much obliged,
Brad.

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