MENUDEF - Positioning every menu in the bottom right corner

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Hello.

I am currently working on menus for my project, including main-, episode- and skill-menus.
I would like all of them to be positioned in the bottom right corner of the screen, as I believe it fits the aesthetic very well. This works easily with the main menu.

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LISTMENU "MainMenu"
{
	Size 450,450
	Font "bigfont","green","olive"
	Position 420, 305
	
	Selector "mmnu_s",10,10
	
	//triangle
	StaticPatch 340, 220, "MMNU_1"

	TextItem "New Game",	"n",	"PlayerclassMenu"
	TextItem "Load one",	"l",	"LoadGameMenu"
	TextItem "Save one",	"s",	"SaveGameMenu"
	TextItem "Settings",	"o",	"OptionsMenu"
	TextItem "Quit it",		"q",	"QuitMenu"
}

Looks like I want it to.

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However, the skill- and episode-menus are giving me a bit of trouble. I know that their contents depend on ZMAPINFO, and that the program automatically fills it.
The positioning seems to work differently with this. My menudef on the episodemenu:

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ListMenu "EpisodeMenu"
{
	Size 450,450
	Font "bigfont","green","olive"
	Selector "mmnu_s",10,10
	StaticPatch 340, 220, "MMNU_1"
	Position 420, 305
}

What it looks like:

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It seems like the positioning works very differently, as the static triangle is in a different position when using the same coordinates. Maybe it is hardcoded, and cant be changed in this way.
I would like to know if there is a way to position all menus in the bottom right corner, or if this is not possible due to the way they are made.
Thank you in advance!

[eharper256]

Massive bit of Necromancy here; but I'd actually like to know about this as well, as I'm trying to convert my menus from the forced Clean pixels method that I enabled as a stopgap measure for menus back ages ago, over to the Canvas method.

SkillMenu does not seem to ever respect the x part of the Position x,y command, except if it, bizarrely, has a negative value, which is apparently fine (and obviously throws your text partially off the screen). The X co-ordinate of the menu appears fixed to be flush at 0, so the selector is not visible. Using centermenu does indeed centre it, but again the X co-ordinate it centres around seems to be forced to be about 30 pixels in so again often falls offscreen based on the length of the text in MAPINFO.

Similarly, EpisodeMenu does not respect the Y axis of the Position x,y command with the same conditions as above.

I'm wondering if Text length and number of strings is a factor that affects this?

[Graf Zahl]

For such specialized means you will have to provide a custom menu class where you can make adjustments to the item coordinates.

[eharper256]

For such specialized means you will have to provide a custom menu class where you can make adjustments to the item coordinates.

Just to make the menus respect the position command requires a special class?!? Yikes.