Negative numbers in option menu

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 12:30 AM +0100 4/16/05, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>I have an option menu button containing a series of numbers for the option,
>including negative numbers. These numbers show fine when I inspect the
>"text" of the button, I see these including the negative numbers. But when
>I use the button, all the negative numbers come out as blank spaces. Can I
>use negative numbers in option menus?

A leading dash is used to create a menu separator in option menus. 
(On some versions of OS X, the separator looks like a blank space.)

The simplest way to work around this is probably to put a leading 
space in front of the negative numbers (or in front of all the menu 
items, for consistent appearance).

If this is a Mac-only app, or if you're willing to do the bit of 
extra work to deal with high-ASCII characters cross-platform, you 
could instead use an n-dash (option-dash) to indicate a negative. The 
n-dash doesn't create a separator.
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