Arrange menu Topic is solved

[hemsith14_]

@flyingDman thanks so much!! Exactly what I needed.

I have just 1 final question

Would it be possible to get a "favorite" part of the menu to always appear next to the cursor, while the rest is being opened normally with the bar breaks on the side?

Even if it's a trick, anything could help

[flyingDman]

I am not sure I understand your question. You have full control over the location of each menu item but you cannot move columns around dynamically, so that if you have a menu with many columns and open it while your mouse pointer is on the right edge of the monitor, your first column will not be close to the mouse pointer. I am not aware of a way to dynamically change that.

[boiler]

If you just want a certain menu item to be under the cursor when the menu opens, just subtract the distance in pixels it is in the x and y directions from the upper-left corner of the menu from the variables x and y.

[sree2022]

Hi I am a newbie. I can see the menu but can you give example how to get each button work ?

[flyingDman]

The "execute" label in my example above was left blank but that's where you would would put any action on the press on any of the buttons. One of the ways to handle a large amount of menu buttons is to use the switch .... case construction (see here: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Switch.htm). Like so:

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loop, 9
	Menu, scripts, Add, test%a_index%, Execute, % !mod(a_index - 1,3) ? "+barbreak" : ""
Menu, scripts, Show
return

execute:
switch A_ThisMenuItem
	{
	case "test1" : msgbox, You clicked test1
	case "test2" : msgbox, You clicked test2
	case "test3" : msgbox, You clicked test3
	case "test4" : msgbox, You clicked test4
	case "test5" : msgbox, You clicked test5
	case "test6" : msgbox, You clicked test6
	case "test7" : msgbox, You clicked test7
	case "test8" : msgbox, You clicked test8
	case "test9" : msgbox, You clicked test9
	}
return

Which is quite a bit shorter than this:

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loop, 9
	Menu, scripts, Add, test%a_index%, Execute%a_index%, % !mod(a_index - 1,3) ? "+barbreak" : ""
Menu, scripts, Show
return

execute1:
msgbox, You clicked test1
return

execute2:
msgbox, You clicked test2
return

execute3:
msgbox, You clicked test3
return

execute4:
msgbox, You clicked test4
return

execute5:
msgbox, You clicked test5
return

execute6:
msgbox, You clicked test6
return

execute7:
msgbox, You clicked test7
return

execute8:
msgbox, You clicked test8
return

execute9:
msgbox, You clicked test9
return