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For a while now, I've been noticing that the left-right cursor key navigation of menus on my C# apps that use MenuStrip is backwards -- I press the right arrow at the top level menu, and the menu to the left is selected, and vice versa.
So after appropriate google-fu (which was a bit difficult because the search terms hit all sorts of irrelevant results for what I was looking for) I found this helpful SO:
This is a bug/misfeature in MenuStrip.
Looking at the ToolStripDropDown.ProcessArrowKey implementation with Reflector shows that the arrow keys get reversed depending on SystemInformation.RightAlignedMenus. That's not right. It should depend on the right-to-left mode of the menu strip itself, which may sometimes (usually?) match SystemInformation.RightAlignedMenus, but not always, and not on my system.
SystemInformation.RightAlignedMenus is user-configurable via Control Panel, Tablet PC Settings, Other, Handedness, and indeed if I change that to Left-handed, I get the menus to behave correctly.
So, sure enough, on my laptop, the "handedness" was set to "right-handed." Setting it to "left-handed" fixes my menu problem.
WTF Microsoft?
Now, what I really love is the accompanying description in the Tablet PC Settings dialog:
Right-handed: Menus appear to the left of your hand.
Left-handed: Menus appear to the right of your hand.
Uh, no. When I change the setting to "left-handed", the menus still are on the left, thankfully.
What an elephanting mess.
Marc
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I thought the handedness thing was a ridiculous feature, anyway.
My laptop has a touch screen, and I foolishly set it to right-handed, so when I click with a mouse, the menu comes out the wrong side, and setting it to left-handed, as you say, doesn't do anything.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's not a bug! It's a feature! 
I don't find this surprising considering the bass ackwardness of M$ thinking patterns.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Unfortunately, in the past they have made a mistake like this and then people get used to it so it is adopted as standard behavior and they never correct it.
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ahso ...
The rise of the anti-Pavlovian Skinnerian paradigm dying in the arms of a Humanistic psychology.
This could be a noise of the day!
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I didn't need a password to log into the WookieTab, and I skip it on the desktop.
Not any more ... WookieTab is now asking for my password and won't accept blank any more. At a guess it's my MS ID password it wants. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Run it as a local user -- bearing in mind that winio will often "forget" that you want to run it as a local user, and fire it up with your MS ID.
When I rebuilt my laptop, I didn't even give it my MS ID, so it can't fark me around like that, any more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You have been Appled again?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: my MS ID password
with 100+ bits of entropy, I trust.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It's an elephanting GUID ... and paste doesn't work ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: and paste doesn't work ...
I honestly have a way around this...
Ending the Era of Weak Passwords: Never Type A Password Again (Never Memorize A Password Again)[^]
That's way too much info, but take a look at the first image in the article.
I build you a device that you simply connect to an available USB port.
You connect via bluetooth with whatever device you wish.
You send the text that you want typed into the field.
The device is seen as a keyboard so it works with every field.
No drivers are installed when you attached the USB device. none. Works on macOS, Linux, Windows with nothing installed because the computer it's attached to just thinks it is a keyboard.
Next, you just need an Android app that stores whatever common text you want to send over bluetooth to your device. Pick one, press send in Android app and it is typed in the target field.
Easy as pie!
If you want one of those, I will build it and send it to you free just so you can try it.
You'll never have to type a password again, if you don't want to.
I use my app / device on my work computer every day to type 64 character passwords for me.
This is way too long but I just thought it might all be a fun thing for you to try.
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It's interesting - I use strong passwords and a password store so most of the time I'm fine: open the store, find the site, press "copy", and paste it in. It's just this stupid login that gives problems...
It's not a bad idea you have there - I'd second the comment suggesting a Kickstarter campaign, you need to get it down to the size of a small USB flash drive: SanDisk Ultra Fit 64 GB USB Flash Drive[^] so it can be permanently inserted, I think. I'd also suggest that the Android / iOS / Windows phone or tablet uses a dedicated app (which encrypts over the Bluetooth link). Then it could really sell well, if you come up with a cool name! Passworks? iForgot?
The article got my +5 anyway!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks for checking out my article and upvoting.
My app that currently works with the device (allows you to send via bluetooth which is encrypted) is available for free on Google Play : CYaPass @ Google Play[^]
My "clever" name is C'Ya Pass a play on (C-Y-A** Pass) and C'Ya (later) Passwords. 
Obviously, I'm an engineer, not a marketer. 
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Have you tried entering your credit card number?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I use the option to log in with a PIN. Much quicker!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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And on certain apps commentsections people still argue that win10 is superior to win 7.
I thought it was pretty clear that it's classified as malware.
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WookieTab
??? 
I'd rather be phishing!
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It's a Chuwi tablet.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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ah, yes, I remember Griff's tablet thingy.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I have a Win10 desktop: which has a specific desktop background.
I also have a WookieTab running Win10, with a totally different background.
I just ran OneNote on both of them, and it auto synchronised my notes.
I now have the WookieTab desktop background on both monitors of my desktop ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wookies are terrible at making up their minds what background they want to have. That's why Mickeysoft has decided to take care of that automatically and without making a big deal of it. Insiders call such features 'Appling the helpless'.
Welcome to the brave new world and one day you will finally come to love the Big Brother.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Insiders Idiots who've never used Apple products call such features 'Appling the helpless'.
FTFY
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Spoken like a true fanboi.
Granted, the last Apple I ever wanted to have was the Apple ][, but the 'listen to your nanny' approach does not just work for everyone.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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