Re: Split Context Menu into columns

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Unfortunately the context menu that ships out of the box is pretty
rudimentry - but it does provide vertical scroll buttons. I would point out
however that having 100s of items on a context menu is probably not the best
thing from a usability point of view. In Windows Vista Microsoft is changing
the way the programs menu works so that they don't flow columns of menus
across the screen.

Perhaps a third-party library can do what you want but I would be looking
into UI alternatives for this amount of data. Maybe categorisation could
help!

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"Shawn" <srepphan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a dynamic context menu attached to a tray icon. It will at times
>have about 100 menuitems. Is it possible to split this up into columns so
>that all the menuitems are on screen at once?(The windows start menu has
>this functionality). Thanks
>


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