'&' in Menu Item

[dao]

I have a menu item that uses an '&' in the actual menu text (in addition to an underlined character). Can someone tell me how to use the WinMenuSelectItem function with the two "flavours" of &?

[martin]

I have a menu item that uses an '&' in the actual menu text (in addition to an underlined character). Can someone tell me how to use the WinMenuSelectItem function with the two "flavours" of &?

I think I understand what you mean. If the menu item looks like this

fish & chips

then the actual text will be

&fish && chips

[Zedna]

I didn't test it but try &&

EDIT: martin beat me ;-)

Edited September 14, 2007 by Zedna

[ssubirias3]

I have a menu item that uses an '&' in the actual menu text (in addition to an underlined character). Can someone tell me how to use the WinMenuSelectItem function with the two "flavours" of &?

What application is it that has the menu like this? Is it something you've created with Autoit? Also it would be helpful if you typed out an example like this:

Notpad has File

To use WinMenuSelectItem() I would use WinMenuSelectItem("Untitled - ", "", "&File")

Now if your application has &Menu1 then the code might be the following. At least that's what would make sense to me. Without more information that's the best I can offer at this time.

WinMenuSelectItem(Title, Text, Chr(38) & "Menu&1")

Edit: You guys are just too fast for me! I would be interested to see if both methods work.

Edited September 14, 2007 by ssubirias3

[dao]

I tried the '&&' and the chr(38) and neither seemed to work.

(For a little background, the menu item is "Test & Copy")

[ssubirias3]

I tried the '&&' and the chr(38) and neither seemed to work.

(For a little background, the menu item is "Test & Copy")

So WinMenuSelectItem(Title, Text, "Test " & Chr(38) & "C&opy") doesn't work? Edited September 14, 2007 by ssubirias3

[dao]

That's correct... neither of the following worked:

WinMenuSelectItem("title", "text", "Test && C&opy")

WinMenuSelectItem("title", "text", "Test " & chr(38) & " C&opy")

[dao]

My apologies, the double ampserand (below) does work. I had an error in the another part of the indented menu structure.

WinMenuSelectItem("title", "text", "Test && C&opy")

Thanks all for your help!

[ssubirias3]

That's correct... neither of the following worked:

WinMenuSelectItem("title", "text", "Test && C&opy")

WinMenuSelectItem("title", "text", "Test " & chr(38) & " C&opy")

Well I've searched several of my applications and I can't find an example that uses "&" as part of the menu text. My initial guess is that this is poor software design since its pretty standard that the & means something in Windows menu commands. The other thing to note is that I personally have found WinMenuSelectItem() a bit buggy. You can search the forum for "WinMenuSelectItem()" for a few of my posts including a feature request.

Probably the best alternative is to use ControlSend() or ControlClick() until enough people agree this is a problem and the dev team does something to fix it. If you feel passionate about it, you can always add your 2 cents on this tread.

Edit: good job getting it working. Both martin and Zedna are some of the best you'll find here.

Edited September 14, 2007 by ssubirias3