>I have a menu which, when displayed in 640X480 mode wraps around and uses a second bar to display the items which do not fit in the first row. In such a low resolution mode, loosing any additional screen realestate is a real problem.
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>In the old FPDOS days such a menu would display as many menu items as would fit and have a continuation arrow on the right hand side to display the rest. It would never use any additional screen space.
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>Does anyone know how to stop my menu from stealing my screen space?
No, I don't, unfortunately.
How long are your menu captions? You might want to re-think them, or perhaps use sub-menus if appropriate. Or, you could use abbreviations and set the "Message" of each pad, which will display in the status bar if you're using that.
Regards. Al
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