Right aligning Menu item in a menu control.
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>Um... Visual Basic fully supports BiDirectional UI (arabic
>and hebrew) and changes to both the RightToLeft and
>Alignment properties have been *expanded* this version (they
>can now be set at runtime whereas they were readonly in
>VB5)..... such support is improving, not being dropped.
But that support is intended for internationalization, not
ro right-justify menus in US-English applications.
I was referring to the traditional right-justified help menu. One
technique that used to work in the menu editor was removed
in an earlier version of VB, and I remember lots of panic and
'why this tip doesn't work' posts. I did not mean to imply that it
was impossible. Just not recommended.
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>VB has not dropped support for anything.... they are simply
>making a recommendation based on user interface guidelines.
Correct. But UI guidelines often become default or mandatory
behavior in future versions of Windows. Look at the massive
number of posts regarding focus handling in Win98.
People who were aware of, and adhered to UI guidelines
weren't tripped up by this. Others are frantically recoding
their apps.
Maybe I sound a little hostile. I've just spent a few months
working with code that ignores all sorts of UI conventions,
including using 50 'Yes/No' message boxes instead of
one dialog. ;)
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>Michael
