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>>>>When right-clicking a folder in the Explorer's treeview the first menu item appears bold. Is there a purpose for this? Does it simply signify that the context menu item text (and hehaviour) can change depending on if the node is collapsed or expanded?
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>>>>Einar
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>>>Einar,
>>>
>>>Bold text on a context menu generally means that it's the default choice and what gets executed by double-clicking on the item instead of right-clicking on it.
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>Chad
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>>Hmm now I noticed that Outlook for instance does not follow the "standard" of making the default (i.e. same behaviour as dbl-clicking) context menu item bold.
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>>Ohh well I'll worry about that a different day.
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>A lot of applications don't bold the default options, but I don't think any bold items that aren't the default (other than perhaps very special circumstances or just very poor design).
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>Chad

I like the bolded default item. I noticed that I had to add code to get the default item to execute even if the DefaultItem property was set to true (with the exception of the expand/collapse), but I guess it makes sense since there is not any restriction on how many DefaultItems one can have.

Einar
Semper ubi sub ubi.
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