ID_MENU MENUBEGIN  POPUP "&File"  BEGIN    MENUITEM "&New", ID_FILE_NEW    MENUITEM "&Open", ID_FILE_OPEN    MENUITEM "&Save", ID_FILE_SAVE    MENUITEM "Save &As", ID_FILE_SAVEAS    MENUITEM SEPARATOR    MENUITEM "E&xit", ID_FILE_EXIT  ENDEND 

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How to Right-Justify Menu Items in Windows 95

Last reviewed: September 29, 1995
Article ID: Q125675
The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with:
  

  - Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.0

SUMMARY

In Windows 95, right-justify (right-align) a menu item by using the MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY type in MENUITEMINFOSTRUCTURE.

MORE INFORMATION

There is a new menu type in Windows 95, MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY type, which you can use to right justify a menu item. The Windows version 3.1 method of prefixing the string with "\a" or "\b" will no longer work.

To right justify a menu item in Windows 95:

1. Get the menu handle of the original menu.


2. Get the original menu item information stored in the MENUITEMINFO structure.


3. Change the menu item type to include MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY by or''ing the original value with MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY.


4. Set the new menu item information.

For example, to create a right-justified menu item, add the following code to WM_CREATE:

   HMENU hMenu;   MENUITEMINFO  mii;   char szBuffer [80];   hMenu = GetMenu (hwnd);   // Get the original value of mii.fType first   // and OR that with MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY   mii.cbSize = sizeof (MENUITEMINFO);   mii.fMask = MIIM_TYPE;   mii.dwTypeData= szBuffer;   mii.cch   = sizeof (szBuffer);   GetMenuItemInfo(hMenu, 1, TRUE, &mii);   // OR in MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY type   mii.fMask = MIIM_TYPE;   mii.fType  = mii.fType | MFT_RIGHTJUSTIFY;   // Right justify the specified item and all those following it   SetMenuItemInfo(hMenu, 1, TRUE,   &mii);   return 0;