Visual Designer menu item question
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:51 pm
Hello,
Brand new, so this is probably a rather simplistic question, but...
I'm trying to do something very simple, adding a tab between a menu item and its shortcut key (e.g. "New CTRL+N"). I've used VD to create my layout, generated source code, opened it in the editor, and added in the appropriate chr(9) character to put the tab in.
However, there seems to be no obvious way for VD to recognize that change, and no way to add the tab character w/in VD itself. And obviously, if I go back to VD to tweak ANYTHING and regenerate, it wipes out the code I inserted manually.
Searching through the forums, I think I see one workaround for it, namely adding code in the main file that reassigns the text for each menu item. However, that seems horribly clumsy, especially for something as basic as putting a tab character in, and fairly inconvenient to boot.
Is there either a way to insert special characters in VD or to get VD to recognize the changes made outside of it? Seems like VD and the editor should be able to communicate a lot better than they seem to.
Thanks in advance,
Eric.
Brand new, so this is probably a rather simplistic question, but...
I'm trying to do something very simple, adding a tab between a menu item and its shortcut key (e.g. "New CTRL+N"). I've used VD to create my layout, generated source code, opened it in the editor, and added in the appropriate chr(9) character to put the tab in.
However, there seems to be no obvious way for VD to recognize that change, and no way to add the tab character w/in VD itself. And obviously, if I go back to VD to tweak ANYTHING and regenerate, it wipes out the code I inserted manually.
Searching through the forums, I think I see one workaround for it, namely adding code in the main file that reassigns the text for each menu item. However, that seems horribly clumsy, especially for something as basic as putting a tab character in, and fairly inconvenient to boot.
Is there either a way to insert special characters in VD or to get VD to recognize the changes made outside of it? Seems like VD and the editor should be able to communicate a lot better than they seem to.
Thanks in advance,
Eric.
