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From: risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Question: Right justified Help menu
Message-ID: <1162@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 91 07:33:48 GMT
References: <25920009@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM>
Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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ssl@hpkslx.mayfield.HP.COM (SSL Guest User) writes:

>How would one force the "Help" popup menu choice to be 
>right-justified on the menu bar?  Lots and lots of apps
>do this, yet all of the standard Microsoft applications 
>just put Help as the last menu choice.

Hi!

You will use a special 'tabulator' character in the .RC for the Help-popup:

   POPUP "First"
      MENUITEM ...
   POPUP "Second"
      MENUITEM ...
   POPUP "Last"
      MENUITEM ...
   POPUP "\aHelp"     /* Here the '\a' (backslash+lowercase-a) */
      MENUITEM ...

I'm writing from memory, but I think it was '\a'.  Anyway, I've seen it
recommended, that the Help-menu be *not* flushed right, but be kept as
just the rightmost entry on the menu bar.  This seems to be the current
'trend' (set up by you guessed which company), which you can check by
cross-referencing this behaviour of a number of programs vs. their dates.

Terveisin: Risto Lankinen
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