right click menus are in the wrong direction

Seems like this was a bug in one of the earlier versions. Are you using the latest release? Try turning off Smart Menus under File-General Options.

Well, I don't have that option checked.

The version I'm using, according to the help>about, is Ver 1.20 build 739

I just built a quick skin and it does it with that file also.

oh, btw, why does the skin edit save the files on the desktop instead of into the right click/skins folder? weird

Are you using WindowsFX? It has some settings which effect menu display.

I don't use the skintool.

I usually convert a WB then I'll go in and make a new folder in the skins directory and copy the info out of the WindowBlindsSkins\Currentskin\Common & Popup into the new folder then edit the popup.obskin file with the text editor to change the directory paths and text height. The biggest item is the "ItemTextOnlyBuffer_LeftOfText=" you need to play with it to get your menu text to line up.

Nope, not using WFX.

I'll give your other suggestion a try. The only problem is that I'm using the orange substyle of GUIskin. The skin converter, apparently, only converts the base skin. But maybe modifying the popup.obskin is the answer. Will be back.

jeez...

The only thing I can think of is this: hBitmap=Background.bmp

Should that 'h' be 'v'? or just Bitmap=Background.bmp?

No, it looks correct that way here's a snip of the one I'm using

[General]
SkinName=Eminence Menus
NumberOfSectionStyles=1
ItemSpacing.cx=1
ItemWidthBuffer=10
TightItemWidthBuffer=2
ResizeBorderSize=3
EdgeBuffer_Top=7
EdgeBuffer_Bottom=7
ItemHeight=18
ItemIconBuffer_LeftOfIcon=11
ItemIconBuffer_BetweenTextAndIcon=2
ItemIconBuffer_RightTextClip=3
ItemTextOnlyBuffer_LeftOfText=32
Font=Segoe UI
FontSize=-12
TextColor=0 0 0

[TaskbarBackgroundSkin]
hBitmap=Background.bmp
TopHeight=5
BottomHeight=5
LeftWidth=9
RightWidth=2
UseTransparency=0
TileCenter=0
TileVCenter=0

[NormalItemSkin]
hBitmap=MenuItemNormal.bmp
TopHeight=7
BottomHeight=8
LeftWidth=15
RightWidth=8
TileCenter=0
TileVCenter=0
UseTransparency=1
TextColor=0 0 0

[MouseoverItemSkin]
hBitmap=MenuItemMouseover.bmp
TopHeight=7
BottomHeight=8
LeftWidth=15
RightWidth=8
TileCenter=0
TileVCenter=0
UseTransparency=1
TextColor=0 0 0

[SelectedItemSkin]
hBitmap=MenuItemMouseover.bmp
TopHeight=7
BottomHeight=8
LeftWidth=15
RightWidth=8
TileCenter=0
TileVCenter=0
UseTransparency=1
TextColor=0 0 0

[SeparatorItemSkin]
hBitmap=Separator Item.tga
TopHeight=1
BottomHeight=14
LeftWidth=8
RightWidth=8

[LeftArrow]
hBitmap=ArrowL.bmp
hBitmapGrayed=ArrowL_Grayed.bmp
UseTransparency=1

[RightArrow]
hBitmap=ArrowR.bmp
hBitmapGrayed=ArrowR_Grayed.bmp
UseTransparency=1

[DownArrow]
hBitmap=ArrowD_Big.bmp
hBitmapGrayed=ArrowD_Grayed_Big.bmp
UseTransparency=1

[UpArrow]
hBitmap=ArrowU_Big.bmp
hBitmapGrayed=ArrowU_Grayed_Big.bmp
UseTransparency=1

[PopupArrow]
hBitmap=ArrowPopup.bmp
hBitmapGrayed=ArrowPopup_Selected.bmp
UseTransparency=1

I would just be happy if they would put some kind of "save" on it, because I keep losing mine, and I have to put everything back in there.

hmm, that's what mine looks like as well.

I guess I need to let Stardock Support know about this. They might check this out Monday anyway.

Thanks so much Lantec. I appreciate your effort.

Ummm, I'm sure you already tried, but I just grab the side of the menu with the cursor & drag it to the width I want-- don't know if it would work with side-by-side items-- don't remember having them

I've had it happen to me once or twice and a reboot took care of it. One time I needed to do a Sys-Restore. Not sure at all what caused it, but it was very weird.

Hippie, make a back-up of desktopmenu.obbar and rightclick.ini and hide them somewhere. I usually just copy the whole folder and save it. Then when (not if) RightClick loses it's menus, I just overwrite the whole folder with my backup. I had way too many times I had to rebuild it from scratch before.

aimzzz, can't resize anything, just moves it around the screen.

boss0190 am going to try the reboot thing.

Thanks folks.

Hippie:
To save the Right Click menu, make the desired changes &
- Exit RC. Exiting saves the changes. It's OK to restart RC before doing the rest:

- Go to RC program directory & create a new folder named Backup (or whatever similar)

- Add copies of the following files to the Backup folder:
RightClick.ini
desktopmenu.obbar

- If RC crashes & the menu is lost, copy the files from Backup to
C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\RightClick\

(or wherever the proggy directory is located)

Hehehe-- I'm too slow for boss0190

hi again...reboot did nothing. Will wait for Support to show up.

Yayyyy, I beat aimzzz. Now I can go take my nap. That was too much work.

Terrible things can happen when a person is napping...

Werewolf-- did you try an uninstall / reinstall using SDC?

aimzzz, not yet. I was thinking about doing that. Oh why not. Can't dance

It will be quick & painless

aimzzz and boss0190, I've tried that. Did'nt work. I'll try again. Maybe I was trying to think to much. Just gives me a headache. I just generally use GoBack, and go back a few seconds, but that's getting old. Seems like somebody could come up with a "Save Configureation". Someday maybe. Thanks ppl.

well, I found the file to edit to change all this mess. It is in the .../stardock/rightclick folder and is called desktopmenu.obbar. Just open it in notepad or whatever and you can change all kinds of things. This would be the file to copy somewhere as a backup as aimzzz said.

Is there a file somewhere which explains what each and every entry in these files is?

Personally I'd go with the uninstall / reinstall using SDC. You can always save the one you have now & compare it with the the clean copy to get an idea...
I'll stop now

oh duh, sorry aimzzz, the uninstall/reinstall through SDC worked correctly. Menu is now showing stacked correctly. Thank you.

Well, aimzzz, seems your advise was well timed. I booted up this morning and that file, desktopmenu.obbar, was gone. Nowhere to be found. Very odd indeed. I closed RC, double clicked on my backup desktopmenu.obbar and was back in business.

Stardock, could you figure out why that file just disappeared? I'll send you any info you need.

This is just nuts...

Booted up my machine this morning and Right Click couldn't find the .obbar file. I went to find it and it was gone!!

So, for some reason, when I shut down my computer last night, and the OS was closing the RC application, it deleted the .obbar file.

Why is it doing that?

I notice that support hasn't peeked into this thread yet Don't really want to start another thread on this, but how do I get their attention?