How to Right-Justify Menu Items in Windows 95

• 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.

   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;

REFERENCES

For additional information on right justifying menus in Windows 3.1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q67063

TITLE     : Inserting Right Justified Text in a Menu in Windows