Re: How to skip & in the Menu string
I see others have told you how to fix this problem and actually use the
ampersand in the text, but I just wanted to add that this is a very handy
paradigm and it works in menus, statics, checkboxes, and other controls
with text labels. So you should still have a accelerator key even if you
want to use the same character as part of the text like:
&Application && Data
Another trick we commonly use is to put three dots (ellipse) after the item
in a menu if it is going to pop up another screen or dialog. So, if in this
case you were going to pop up an Application & Data window you would put:
&Application && Data...
In the resource editor you can right click and pick "Check mnemonics" from
the menu to make sure there are no duplicate keys in your menu or dialog
items.
Tom
"Matrixinline" <anup.kataria@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,
My Menu String is like " Application & Data"
I do InsertMenu. and when I see the menu it looks like "Application
_Data"
I guess & is the Skip character + it adds the next character as
Shortcut key of that menu Item.
But Can you please let me know how to Skip it? I tried \&, \\& but it
does not give any good result
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