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Menus - Custom menus			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Titles and Shading Updated: 5 Dec 2003 An easy use of owner drawn menu with variable styles like new Office products with titles, shading and icons. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Bruno Podetti	4.79
A Revolutionary New Approach to Custom Drawn Menus Updated: 26 May 2003 A new and unique approach to the perennial problem of how to change the default appearance of Windows menus VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	.dan.g.	4.74
CMenuXP - The Office XP Style Menu Updated: 13 Jul 2003 Owner drawn menu with the Office XP visual style VC6, VC7, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jean-Michel LE FOL	4.73
Cool Owner Drawn Menus with Bitmaps - Version 3.03 Updated: 28 Apr 2002 This class implements an owner drawn menu class that mimics the menu style used in XP, Office and Visual C++ VC6, CE 2.11, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Advanced	Brent Corkum	4.72
Super Context Menu Updated: 8 Jan 2008 How to build a context menu that display any group of controls C#, Windows, .NET, Dev, Design, Intermediate	Hany Badrous	4.64
Menu Bitmaps from Minimal Source Code Updated: 1 Feb 2002 Add bitmaps to your menus easily and with very little source code. VC6, VC7, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Warren Gardner	4.59
A Powerfull Ownerdraw Menu Updated: 23 Oct 2001 An XP-style ownerdrawn menu with support for background images and icon shadow. VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Neil Yao	4.47
A ToolBarCtrl Based Menubar Control Updated: 3 Dec 2001 A ToolBarCtrl based menubar control using CMenuXP VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Neil Yao	4.44
Owner drawn menu with bitmaps, icons, and colors Updated: 8 Sep 2002 Use application resources to create your owner drawn menu.  VC6, WinXP, VS6, C++/CLI, .NET, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	chia hung liu	3.87
Simple Menus That Display Icons - Minimalistic Approach Updated: 20 Jan 2008 A super-modest approach to owner-drawn menus. VC6, VC8.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS2005, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alex Cohn	3.74
Owner Drawn Menu with Icons, Fade 2D-3D Horizontal/Vertical Updated: 29 Nov 2003 This article describes an owner drawn menu with icons, fade 2D-3D horizontal/vertical. VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Dascalescu Romy	3.71
Reduced context menus Updated: 5 Nov 2002 This code provides a simple way to remove disabled items from a context menu. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	S Fewings	3.43
Popup menu with nice title Updated: 2 Apr 2002 Put a nice title above your popup menus VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Arthur Westerman	3.35
Tear-off menus Updated: 4 Dec 2003 See how to have tear-off menus in your program. VC6, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Alexander Bischofberger	3.19
Modifying the System Menu Updated: 26 Jan 2007 Add menu items to, and learn how to handle the system menu C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.07
Menus & Toolbars - Docking bars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
OutlookBar: A Simplified Outlook Style Sidebar Control Updated: 10 Nov 2006 An article on using and writing a user control resembling one of Outlook's sidebar controls. .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS2005, C#, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Herre Kuijpers	4.63
BarTender - Group your contents Updated: 25 Apr 2006 An Outlook bar like control with generic contents and animation effects. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Robert Rohde	4.55
A Docking control that can be dragged and resized by the user Updated: 22 Oct 2001 This control allows the user to resize and drag your docking control to different form edges C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Phil Wright	3.76
Menus - General			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
Menu Images using C# and IExtenderProvider - a better mousetrap! Updated: 24 Nov 2002 How to extend the standard menus to support icons using IExtender in C#. .NET 1.0, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Beckett	4.84
An examination of menus from a beginner's point of view Updated: 22 Jun 2004 A discussion of the OS menu object from a beginner's viewpoint. I take you through the basics to a more advanced understanding of menus and how to interact with them from code. VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Beginner	Roger Allen	4.78
Gradient Menus in MFC Updated: 14 May 2000 Create Popup menus in MFC with a gradient and text on the left side VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jim Koornneef	4.78
Owner drawn menus in two lines of code Updated: 4 Feb 2005 Another method of implementing owner drawn menus, which only requires two lines of code by you the coder. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Roger Allen	4.73
Dynamic Items Updated: 24 Feb 2003 A class and an easy way to dynamically add items stored in a file to a menu VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	David Excoffier	4.73
Cheat's Outlook Bar Updated: 3 Mar 2005 An alternative "minimal-code" Outlook-style menu bar. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Gary Perkin	4.73
Dual Menus: Add a Left-click Menu to your Application's Tray Icon Updated: 27 Sep 2007 This article will show you a trick to spoof a right-click on your tray icon to support dual contextual menus for your application's NotifyIcon. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	logan1337	4.63
A Magical Edit Menu Manager Updated: 22 Feb 2004 A magical edit menu that works with no connections to the rest of your project. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Tom Clement	4.58
MenuItem Extender - add images and font support to your menu Updated: 29 Feb 2004 An extender provider component that provides Image and Font properties to a MenuItem class. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Eugene Pankov	4.56
Extended Interface for Status Message Updated: 8 Apr 2002 Adding an extended property to Menus in order to provide automatic statusbar messages as the user chooses different menu options. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	psdavis	4.54
MenuEx - full image and color support for Windows Forms Menus using C# Updated: 13 Jul 2005 A component suite to implement full owner-draw MenuItem support, including the painting of Menu Bars. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Jonathan Lynas	4.54
Command Routing for Popup Menus Updated: 22 Aug 2000 Handle grayed/disabled/checked menu items using the familiar OnUpdate interface VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Noel Dillabough	4.47
An XML-Driven Menu Strip Updated: 16 Apr 2007 In this article, I'm going to show how to generate a dynamic MenuStrip (.NET 2.0's replacement of the MainMenu control) using recursion in C#. The MenuStrip will be based on XML data which contains all the details about the generated Menu. .NET 2.0, WinXP, Vista, VS2005, C# 2.0, Dev, Intermediate	Bryan Ray	4.46
Command switchboard for Windows Forms Updated: 12 Jul 2007 Switchboard component for user interface commands with design time support .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	B.Sundby	4.46
XPrintHeader - Choose page header format using "More like this" popup menus Updated: 30 Jul 2003 XPrintHeader implements a dialog that allows the user to choose the formatting for a page header by dynamically created popup menus. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Hans Dietrich	4.43
Iconized MenuItem Updated: 28 Nov 2005 How to implement a full-featured iconized menu item in C#. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Nikita D. Sinelnikoff	4.42
Office 2003 Menus Updated: 23 Feb 2004 A component to change the look of the menus to that of Office 2003 .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Mohammed Halabi	4.39
Add serialization support to CMenu Updated: 4 Dec 2001 The CMenu class is a great help when it comes to manipulating menus, but unfortunately it doesn't implement serialization. CSerializableMenu is a subclass of CMenu that provides serialization support. VC6, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Sidney Chong	4.38
Most Recently Used (MRU) Component Updated: 5 Nov 2004 A Most Recently Used component written in C#. .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Tim Almdal	4.38
Dynamic Menu Based on Database Updated: 10 Nov 2005 A dynamic personal menu for applications based on the information in database. VB, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Daniel Presman	4.35
Display any usercontrol as a popup menu Updated: 1 May 2005 This article introduces a little class which lets you show any usercontrol in XP style popup menu. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, VB, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Pascal Ganaye	4.32
Transparent Menu Updated: 8 Jun 2004 An article on creating transparent menus for your applications VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Derick Cyril Thomas	4.24
Add User Shortcuts To Files/URLs to Application Menus Updated: 22 Nov 2006 .NET Class that loads a list of files/URLs and displays them in the menu of Windows Forms application .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Chris Hambleton	4.20
Almost Office2003 - Getting rid of the margin in MenuItems Updated: 10 Mar 2006 A tutorial on using the IExtenderProvider. .NET 1.1, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Julian Ott	4.19
Insert your Logo between caption bar and menu bar Updated: 16 Jan 2000 Give your apps a unique look by adding a logo to your menu. VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Wooseok Seo	4.15
Getting a Handler Function to a Specific Popup Menu Updated: 2 Feb 2006 This article explains how to get a call to a handler, when a specific popup-menu is about to be opened. C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Ohad Redlich	4.12
VB.NET-XML based Dynamic Menu Component using Recursion Technique Updated: 15 Jan 2007 Generating Dynamic Menus (using recursion) in VB.NET using XML data .NET 2.0, VS2005, VB, XML, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Sundar Kasthuri	4.09
Adding icons to menus in VB.NET Updated: 24 Jun 2002 A simple extension of the menu control that displays icons. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VB, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Retana Padilla	4.00
Changing the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU) Updated: 9 Apr 2003 How to change the number of items that appear in the Most Recently Used List (MRU). VC6, VC7, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Jason Walsh	4.00
MRU Menu Class Updated: 8 May 2004 MRU Menu class is basically an ArrayList that will automatically populate a MenuItem in a MainMenu control. It will display the 5 most recent entries and exposes a Click event for you to respond to. You can also save the list to a file with the provided properties. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VB, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	chad_ross	4.00
Switching language of Menu using C# and XML Updated: 17 Aug 2005 Switching the language of a menu. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, XML, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Phan Tai Phu	4.00
Issues with popup menu owned by a non CFrameWnd derived class Updated: 2 Nov 2000 How to handle UpdateCommandUI messages for menus not owned by CFrameWnd windows VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Cheeran Santhosh	3.97
Working with OwnerDraw Menus in VB.NET Updated: 17 Nov 2003 This article describes the processes involved with using owner draw menu items .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, VB, Windows, Dev, Beginner	GregOsborne	3.97
How to create owner drawn menus - Step by Step Updated: 16 May 2004 This tutorial explains how to create owner drawn menus step by step VC6, VC7, VC7.1, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Kevin Stumpf	3.93
Flat VS.NET Style Menus - Even on Windows 98 Updated: 3 Sep 2003 Flat VS.NET style menus - Even on Windows 98 .NET 1.1, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, VB, Dev, Intermediate	Giancarlo Aguilera	3.89
Adding Images to Menu Updated: 14 Nov 2002 Adding images to MenuItems .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	SeeSharp	3.86
A simple PerformanceCounter StatusStripItem Updated: 19 Feb 2007 An article about how to use a PerformanceCounter as a small chart in a status strip. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	don!marco	3.83
Populating Menu Control in ASP.NET 2.0 - using different data sources Updated: 7 Oct 2005 An article on how to populate the Menu control in ASP.NET 2.0 using different data sources. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	azamsharp	3.81
VS.NET style owner drawn menu with drop-shadow Updated: 31 Oct 2001 This article presents a Visual Studio .NET style menu with drop shadow. VC6, VC7, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nathan Moinvaziri	3.70
Creating and Installing Internet Explorer Context Menu using C# Updated: 10 Feb 2008 Add an Internet Explorer context menu using an installer class WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C#, JScript, Windows, Win32, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	Riad MS Afyouni	3.67
A toobar color picker - Unedited Updated: 21 Sep 2007 A toobar color picker .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, VS.NET2003, VS2005, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, Windows, Dev, Beginner	mksams	3.61
Subclassed System Menu Updated: 17 Feb 2004 Implementation of a subclassed system menu for non standard UIs. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, NT4, VS.NET2003, VB, Dev, Intermediate	mike692	3.56
ActionMenuStrip/OptionMenuStrip: Generic MenuStrips Configured by an Enum T Updated: 7 Jun 2006 MenuStrips automatically filled using enums as templates. .NET 2.0, VS2005, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	OrlandoCurioso	3.55
Merging Two Menus Updated: 15 Nov 2001 This function will merge two menues VC6, NT4, Win2K, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Oskar Wieland	3.52
Improvement of the .NET Menu Style class Updated: 14 Jan 2003 This is an improvement by Francesco Natali over an improvement by Sajith M of the "Visual Studio .NET Menu Style" by Carlos H. Perez .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Francesco Natali	3.45
Dynamic Menu Creation Updated: 24 Sep 2002 Dynamically create menus whose structure is defined in an Access database. .NET 1.0, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Marc Clifton, Martin Robins	3.37
A Simple way to switch from one menu set to another Updated: 5 Jun 2002 Replace your current menus with another set of menus with this function VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	dazinith	3.25
Tooltips for Menu Item and popup menuitem Updated: 19 Nov 2003 Simple and best way to add tooltips to the menu items. All you have to do is simply include the header file and call Create and hook the WM_MENUSELECT message. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	venu8000	3.17
Menu sidebar made easy Updated: 1 Apr 2005 A menu class with sidebar and color support. VC6, VS6, Windows, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Nisamudheen	3.15
Dynamic submenus Updated: 20 Mar 2000 Some handy functions for adding and deleting submenus and menuitems in runtime VC6, NT4, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Anneke Sicherer-Roetman	3.05
Dynamically Build Your Menu and/or Toolbar Updated: 12 May 2005 Build a menu and/or a toolbar dynamically without using resource files (well, almost). VC6, NT4, Win2K, WinXP, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	John Simmons / outlaw programmer	3.03
A Transparent menu synchronizing system Updated: 23 Feb 2004 An article about menu enable/disable management in an semi-automated way. VC6, VC7, Win2K, WinXP, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Vasian Cepa	3.00
LAN Messenger Updated: 19 Aug 2004 A tool for communicating with the computers across the network. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2002, VB, Dev, Intermediate	kennedy_franklin	3.00
CMenuEx - Ownerdrawn Menu Updated: 27 Aug 2004 An easy-to-use ownerdrawn menu, derived from CMenu. VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	C. Bügenburg	2.77
Delete Sub Menu Updated: 27 Apr 2004 How to add delete submenu to the file menu of Document/View program in VC++. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Priyank Bolia	2.70
ButtonMenu - a.k.a. a simple hack for a nice gui - Unedited Updated: 6 Jun 2006 Developing a nice menu look using only C# C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Beginner	lbenini	2.59
CMenuEX - A bitmap menu class Updated: 4 Jan 2001 Implementing an Ownerdrawn menu VC6, NT4, Win2K, VS6, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	norm .net	2.45
A higher fidelity mimic of flat menu to VS.NET 2003 - Unedited Updated: 7 Aug 2007 Mimic the VS.NET 2003 menu style by improving the existing work .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C# 1.0, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	slimzhao	2.20
Enhancements for Jim Koornneef 's CGradientMenu class Updated: 27 Oct 2004 Enhancements for Jim Koornneef 's GradientMenu class on CodeProject C++, Windows, Visual Studio, MFC, Dev, Intermediate	Michael Heber	2.10
How to use popup-menu to simulate menu assigned to window? - Unedited Updated: 25 Oct 2005 for the window skined with no-regular region, the menu assigned to window is difficult to be placed on it's normal location, so it does not work. I will introduce to you a way that use popup-menu to simulate menu assigned to window. VC6, VC7, VC7.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, MFC, Dev, Advanced	goodboyws	1.25
Menus and Toolbars			top
Title / Updated	Author	Score
An easy way to add a Ribbon Panel Office 2007 style Updated: 18 Apr 2007 GNU code of RibbonPanel, free software for personal and nonlucrative use, for rest please contact me .NET 2.0, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, Vista, VS2005, VB 8.0, C#, Dev, WinForms, Design, Intermediate	Juan Pablo G.C.	4.77
Another ToolBox Control Updated: 19 Oct 2005 Another Visual Studio like ToolBox control. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2003, C#, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Aju.George	4.69
MozBar Updated: 29 Sep 2005 A flexible toolbar very much like the toolbar in FireFox Options dialog. Win2K, WinXP, C#, .NET, Visual Studio, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	Patrik Bohman	4.65
Circular Menu Component Updated: 21 Jan 2005 Describes the use and architecture of an animated, circularly arranged pop-up menu control written in C#. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2002, VS.NET2003, C#, VB, Windows, GDI+, Arch, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	Mark J Biddlecom	4.57
Flat-style menu bar and popup menu control for WinForms Updated: 1 Feb 2006 A custom control for adding flat-style menu bars, navigation bars, or popup menus to your WinForms application. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, WinForms, Intermediate	nschan	4.49
FishEye Menu in Winforms Updated: 12 Mar 2007 Brief How-To on a FishEye Menu .NET 2.0, WinXP, VS2005, C# 2.0, Dev, Beginner	Matias Szulman	4.18
Dynamic MainMenu formation in WinForm Application using DataSet Updated: 24 Feb 2004 Dynamic MainMenu formation in WinForm application using DataSet. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Amalorpavanathan Yagulasamy(AMAL)	3.57
Putting Images Next To MenuItems In A Menu in C# Updated: 12 Jun 2003 Putting Images Next To MenuItems In A Menu in C#.NET .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, VS.NET2002, C#, Dev, Beginner	KingTermite	3.55
FlatMenusForm - a class, which makes the default 3D menus look flat Updated: 31 May 2003 How to change the default 3D look in Windows 9x, NT and WinXP classic appearance menus. .NET 1.0, VS.NET2002, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Georgi Atanasov	3.48
MenuDecorator - Helper class to diagnose your main menu contents Updated: 29 Nov 2007 A class to colorize and enable the implemented main menu options in one step. .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, VS2008, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	Jaime Olivares	3.48
A smart MenuItem Updated: 26 Dec 2002 A Menuitem that acts as a MRU list C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Jan Wiggers	3.19
Toolbar control Updated: 9 Aug 2003 Writing a custom control for the first time. C#, Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Dev, Intermediate	Lasse Johansen	3.14
Customizable MainMenu on C# Updated: 23 Dec 2004 An article on custom main menus and owner drawing. .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, Dev, Intermediate	João Martins	3.08
Dynamic MainMenu formation in Winform Application using XML - Part 2 Updated: 7 Feb 2004 Dynamic MainMenu formation in Winform application using XML. .NET 1.1, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003, VS.NET2003, C#, Dev, Intermediate	Amalorpavanathan Yagulasamy(AMAL)	3.07
A Basic Chooser-Style DropDown ToolBar Button Updated: 13 May 2005 This articles shows how to implement a basic, chooser-style dropdown ToolBar button. .NET 1.1, VS.NET2003, C#, Windows, GDI+, Dev, Intermediate	JRS	2.88
Navigation Menu for Windows forms (Outlook bar style) Updated: 2 Apr 2007 This article is about the creation of a user control which have the style like Outlook Express bar or DHTML Menu C# 2.0, Windows, .NET, Dev, Advanced	NinethSense	2.20
Make a "Search Google For" Context Menu - Unedited Updated: 26 Mar 2008 A walkthrough for creating a handy Google Search For context menu, like in Firefox. WinXP, Vista, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, VS2008, C#, Windows, .NET, Win32, Win64, Visual Studio, Dev, Design, Beginner, Intermediate	Samuel Allen	1.71