Using accelerator shortcut to format menu items?

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Hi all,

I would like to have columns in a context-menu in order to make it

easier to read. The best I have come up with so far is to fake it
with accelerator short-cuts (add a tab character). For instance, the
text of the highlighted menu item in the attached figure is “WCDMA I
(2100MHz) \t1920-2170MHz”. Is it OK to do this or am I doing
something dangerous here?

Or is there a better way to achieve proper columns in a menu?

I only need this to work on Windows.

Thanks,

Max Landaeus

wcdma-menu.png

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Max Landaeus wrote:

Hi all,

  I would like to have columns in a context-menu in order to make it

easier to read. The best I have come up with so far is to fake it
with accelerator short-cuts (add a tab character). For instance,
the text of the highlighted menu item in the attached figure is
“WCDMA I (2100MHz) \t1920-2170MHz”. Is it OK to do this or am I
doing something dangerous here?

Nope, that's not dangerous.  If you need more than that, you will

have to use an “owner-draw” menu, where you handle the drawing
yourself.

··· 
-- Tim Roberts, Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

timr@probo.com

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Thanks Tim. Then I'll stick to this method for now.
Max

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On 19/1/2011 2:48 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:

Max Landaeus wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to have columns in a context-menu in order to make it
easier to read. The best I have come up with so far is to fake it with
accelerator short-cuts (add a tab character). For instance, the text
of the highlighted menu item in the attached figure is "WCDMA I
(2100MHz) \t1920-2170MHz". Is it OK to do this or am I doing something
dangerous here?

Nope, that's not dangerous. If you need more than that, you will have to
use an "owner-draw" menu, where you handle the drawing yourself.

--
Tim Roberts,timr@probo.com
Providenza& Boekelheide, Inc.

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