Popup Menu

[jj2007]

Hallo Mic,

Colouring the menu bar is not foreseen in Windows afaik. I vaguely remember to have read somewhere that "menus are windows", so they might have a WndProc and a WM_ERASEBGND message, but Google is not my friend tonight :(

Good luck and Happy Easter :icon14:

[Biterider]

Hi clamicun
I'm not sure what you want to do. I send you a demo where I used the the "Owner Draw" method to customize the menu drawing.
In this particular example, I painted the "Help" main menu item with the COLOR_GRADIENTACTIVECAPTION system color.

If this is what you want, I can provide you the source to adapt it to your project  :P

Regards, Biterider

[aw27]

I vaguely remember to have read somewhere that "menus are windows", so they might have a WndProc and a WM_ERASEBGND message

What you might have read was "Menu of windows" not "Menu are windows".  A little word that changes the whole case.
This does not mean it can't be painted. All you need is a brush.  :t

[jj2007]

I send you a demo where I used the the "Owner Draw" method to customize the menu drawing.

Impressive :t

[clamicun]

jj,
thanks a lot.
Finally a satisfactory answer. This explains the many unsuccessful attempts in several programming languages.
Have a good one
Mic

[TimoVJL]

mov mi.fMask,MIM_BACKGROUND or MIM_APPLYTOSUBMENUS
and the result was yellow.
But you wanted something else ?

[clamicun]

TimoVJL,
that is exactly what I want. Not necessarily the dropdownmenu (MIM_APPLYTOSUBMENUS)
but the menubar.
How did you do that ?
Whatever I do, only the dropdownmenu gets the color of the brush

[TimoVJL]

I was using a Windows Classic theme, so it's a theme problem with menu.

EDIT: SetWindowTheme(hWnd, L"", L"");
EDIT:

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sUXT db "UxTheme.dll",0
sFunc db "SetWindowTheme",0
swNull dw 0
Wnd dd ?

.code
start:
INVOKE LoadLibraryA, ADDR sUXT
.if eax
INVOKE GetProcAddress, eax, ADDR sFunc
.if eax
push OFFSET swNull
push OFFSET swNull
push [Wnd]
call eax
.endif
.endif


[HSE]

I was using a Windows Classic theme

I "discover" yesterday that Menu SystemColors don't work with Aero theme I have 

[Biterider]

Hi
Passing a brush to the SetMenuInfo API, it is perfectly possible to draw on the complete MenuBar and there is no need to change the windows theme settings.
Tested on Win 10 & Win7.

Regards, Biterider

[HSE]

Just random luck: the menubar have colors if you disable visual themes in binary compatibility properties  :t

[clamicun]

Hi Biterider,

???  7-Zip
OwnerDraw.zip
Die Datei kann nicht geöffnet werden
Can't open file
Ist kein Archiv
It isn't an arquive

[Biterider]

Hi Clamicun
OwnerDraw.zip is a jpg file renamed to .zip, so that the forum SW can display it.

Regards, Biterider

[Biterider]

Hi
I'm playing with this implementation to let the MenuBar flash asynchroniously to get the users attention.
I modified the code to trigger the flashing when a new MDI client window is created or the help or about dialog are shown.  8)

Regards, Biterider

[clamicun]

jj,
what is this ?

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/menu/menucolour.htm