Positioning popup menus

I'm not a big fan of right click menus. In many applications they are implemented incorrectly and cannot be triggered with the context menu key or the standard Shift+F10 combination. They also seem to be sort of a dump bin for many developers. Instead of thinking how to incorporate a new feature in a useful way, it's just added to all right click menus on the form. Lastly, right click menus are hardly discoverable for the end user. Having to click on every pixel just to discover whether there's some hidden feature is great for games, but not really appropriate for any productive application.
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ActiveFiX

ActiveX controls don't work well in VFP with modal forms. Well, that's not exactly a big surprise for anyone who tried that. If you contact the creator of an ActiveX control you usually end up with one of two replies:
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