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Re: Menubars and FieldEditors

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From: Dave Hollenbeck
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:21
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Mark Linton (linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com) wrote:
: In article <810@mesrx.UUCP>, amw116@mesrx.com (amy m wong) writes:
: |> 1) I have a simple question about appending MenuItem objects
: |> to menubars.  I want to know how to append a menu item to
: |> the far right of a menubar.  It seems that Menu automatically
: |> sticks a hglue() at the end of  a given menubar.  Thus, the 
: |> last menu item can never be right justified. 
: 
: Put a menu item containing a piece of hglue(fil, 0, fil) before the right-adjusted items.
: By making the natural size infinite, you force the box to shrink this glue
: instead of stretching the glue at the end of the menu bar.
 
Seems like what you really want is a subclass of Menu.  Or at least
an hbox.  Then you can have three menubar segments, the middle one
being empty.

Of course, I could be wrong.
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