i'm still stuck with this problem of having popup menus in child forms which make an MDI form's menus disappear. i thought i found a way to create the MDI form's menus in the child forms at runtime using the CreateMenu API, but now i've learned that you can't create menus on MDI child forms (unless i can make the main menu item invisible somehow??).

the only other ways i can think of are to either create the MDI form's menus on each child form at design time (which would get very annoying if i need to add other menus in future), or to create the child form menus in the MDI form (which i already had, but this creates too much code to have in memory throughout the life of the app).

can anyone think of any way i can do this?