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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How to Change MS WORD 3.0 Menu Names?
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 13:16:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 13:16:18 1987
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>Help! Help! Help!
>
>I want to change the menu names in MS Word 3.0. 
>Though I can use say Fedit Plus, to read the stuff, I can't change the code
>because I cannot shorten words with disk editors, unless I want to screw up
>the stuff. Am I right?

Well, you're technically right, the string lengths should remain the same to
be really sure. However, some strings have a length byte in front of the chars,
and changing this should make things work OK. Even if you can't change the
string lengths, you might make shorter names with trailing spaces to fill the
string. This will help some, because the menu bar is displayed in Chicago which
is a variable character width font. Thus, the trailing spaces will be shorter,
but not as much shorter as if they didn't exist.

You can complain that Microsoft "didn't do it right" by not using MENU resour-
ces, but then look closely at how they are wildly changing those menus dynam-
ically and you will understand. It should make internationalizing their program
more difficult for someone, though. Maybe this is a weak point of the resource
concept? (There - that should be ground for a holy war!)

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)