Is there any recommended or clean way to tell when the menu status/command bar is up? In November 1999, David Fedor wrote: >What event is generated when the command bar goes away? No event is generated, again this isn't new, but clearly in your case you'd prefer to know what the status is. Basically there's no good way to tell if either variety of the command bar is up; you can only call MenuEraseStatus() to close it if necessary. But even if there was a mechanism, you'd also want to know its bounds too. I'll see what can be done, but nothing can be added to the rom for shipping products or for the 3.5 schedule. Perhaps some glue or sample code showing the safe way to do it on existing roms. I couldn't find anything in the KB. Mine is the usual problem, I guess: I have animation that needs to draw near the bottom of the screen, and I just want to know whether it's safe to draw or not. So far everything I've tried has flaws. The only thing I haven't tried yet is just *always* call MenuEraseStatus(NULL) before drawing, but hoo boy is that heavy handed, and also mucks up the useer experience. What are the other alternatives? (if any...) Dave Johnson -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
