shortcut key from menu on main window

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Good day

I have windows of type main which have many resize events on the datawindows residing on it and space is tight. It sits outside our main app container which has a menu control.

I require some of the shortcut key functionality we have there on these other windows without the menu being displayed. Discovered the following code on the web http://pbbraindump.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/using-a-menu-on-a-response-window-to-give-you-key-short-keys/and although the menu control is indeed hidden it is still adjusting the height of the window (which cannot be any higher) and messing with my resize functionality.

Is there a way to stop the changemenu method from adjusting the height or indeed another means of solving this issue?

/* in order to make keyboard shortcuts available, create a hidden menu */

if not isvalid(this.menuid) Then

ll_winheightadjust = this.height

/* instantiate the menu */

this.changemenu(m_helpmain)

lm_id = this.menuid

this.toolbarheight=0

//this.ToolbarAlignment = AlignAtRight!

/* hide the menu and it's first level items */

lm_id.visible = false

for ll_index = 1 to upperbound(lm_id.item)

lm_id.item[ll_index].visible = false

end if

I tried initially the window event keydown, but I lose the shortcut if I jump to another application and return.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you in advance

Andy

PowerBuilder 12.1, MS Windows 7