---
title: "[Problem and solution] Right-to-left menus get scrambled when form is maximized"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/7/problem-and-solution-right-to-left-menus-get-scrambled-when.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/7/problem-and-solution-right-to-left-menus-get-scrambled-when.html"
published: "2004-06-07T17:45:00"
updated: "2004-06-07T17:45:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Lots of weird things happen when you try to develop a right-to-left internationalized software package. For example, You *think* your menus on the main form are fine, in a right-to-left state, but when you *maximize*…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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---

# \[Problem and solution\] Right-to-left menus get scrambled when form is maximized

By Roy Osherove June 7, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 7, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Lots of weird things happen when you try to develop a right-to-left internationalized software package.

For example, You \*think\* your menus on the main form are fine, in a right-to-left state, but when you \*maximize\* the form all the menus suddenly are re-ordered left-to-right. Like magic.

**How to fix it** - though it seems really stupid- it works. In this example I am making my form maximized from code along with the lines that changes the menus back to their rightful state:

private void Form1\_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;

// WORKAROUND RightToLeft Problem

this.OnRightToLeftChanged(EventArgs.Empty);

}

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