Re: Font for a menu?

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I wasn't aware this was a user option.

And I have just discovered that when I run my own software, I get pop-up
context menus *with* underlines when I use the context-menu key on the
keyboard, but *without* underlines when I right click. I *thought* I was
generating them with the same code, so something needs looking into here

XP: Desktop -> Right-click -> Properties -> Appearance (tab 4) ->
Effects -> Hide underlined letters for keyboard navigation until
I press the Alt key
Vista: Desktop -> Right-click -> Personalize -> Ease of Access (bottom-left)
-> Make my keyboard easier to use -> Underline keyboard shortcuts and
access keys

API: SystemParametersInfo with SPI_GETKEYBOARDCUES


All Win versions up to 2000 used to show the underscore all the time, and
there was no option to hide it.

But I think it is very likely that Theme API whould honor that.



You might check the official Unicode chart for the musical symbol block:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

To my untrained eye it looks like these are the values:
- an upward triangle:the Greek capital delta works well.
1D149;MUSICAL SYMBOL TRIANGLE NOTEHEAD UP BLACK;So;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;

- a double sharp sign: it's in the 4-byte section of UTF-16
and I haven't found any font with it. (I have to use x)
1D12A;MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE SHARP;So;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;

- a little circle in the air with a stroke through it.
(I haven't even located that in the unicode set!)
1D1C9;MUSICAL SYMBOL TEMPUS PERFECTUM CUM PROLATIONE
PERFECTA DIMINUTION-1;So;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;


Also the flat symbol is very poorly spaced in the text which comes up.
So I want to specify my own non-unicode symbols font which has all of
these characters.

If you want to make your own font, why not make it standard, with
proper Unicode mappings, instead of a symbol font?
I did some searching, and I was unable to find anything decent.
So if you make it standard you might be able to fill a niche that seems
badly served right now (and maybe make some money in the process :-)



That is something else I hadn't thought about. I need to win a few other
battles before I get that far!

At least you care about it and sound like you will have it on the
back-burner. Which is already more than many application I have seen :-)


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Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Visual C++]
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