How to move a menu item to the left?!

[Adrian]

Hi
simple question I hope!!

Using the menu designer I have a file menu and an options menu with sub
items... I have added a Help menu and want it on the right-hand side away
from the other menu items, how do I do this?


Thanks

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Hi
simple question I hope!!

Using the menu designer I have a file menu and an options menu with sub
items... I have added a Help menu and want it on the right-hand side away
from the other menu items, how do I do this?

AFAIK you can add a separator bar. Or do you want it to park itself on the
right hand side of the menu bar? If so just set alignment right.

 

[CMM]

That's bad UI design.
Right aligned Help menus haven't been seen since Windows 3.1.

 

[Guest]

That's too bad...I kind of liked separating the "wheat" from the "chaf" and
help in most applications is mostly "chaf".

 

[CMM]

I don't think there is anything inherently right or wrong with right-aligned
Help Menus. It's a matter of consistency.

 

[Adrian]

Well I guess its me but I cannot see any align properties!

and just for clarity I want the File menu to remain on the left, only the
Help menu item to shift.

I'm using VS2003

Thanks

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Than why do you not something as place a menuitem between it with some dummy
text. Something as . .

Just as idea

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Using the menu designer I have a file menu and an options menu with sub
items... I have added a Help menu and want it on the right-hand side away
from the other menu items, how do I do this?

Although this is possible using the standard MainMenu component and p/invoke
(<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=rightalignmenuitem&lang=en>) I
strongly recommend not to use right-aligned menu items.

 

[Adrian]

Thanks for the link I will give it a go!

But also I will think if I realy want yo do this, given the feedback!!!

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Well I guess its me but I cannot see any align properties!

and just for clarity I want the File menu to remain on the left, only the
Help menu item to shift.

I'm using VS2003

You can do this in VB 2005 OK.

 

[Adrian]

I have been thinking about using VS2005 but can you set it per application
to out an application that either uses 1.1 or dotnet 2 or is the output
alway 2?