>>You can use the old 2.x trick of tacking the COLOR command on to, say, the Message clause of the menu.
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>Fred,
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>You piqued my interest... Could you explain that more or give me a simple code example?
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>Renoir

In the Menu Designer under the options for a row (the box at the end) for the Message you can specify:

"" COLOR n,bg+

This would give you cyan on black prompt for that row. Note that you can't seem to get all color combinations because of the way menu's work, at least I wasn't able to get all combinations.

What you should see if you look at the resultant .MPR when you generate the menu is:

DEFINE BAR 1 OF yourmenu PROMPT "Your Prompt" ;
	MESSAGE "" COLOR n,bg+

This little trick seems to be a lot more useful in specifying a font or at least a font size for a menu entry. Just substitute FONT "Tahoma",16 or any fontname, size you want to see for the above. Additional comands that are supported by the DEFINE BAR command can be specified and added this way, even if they are not supported directly by the Menu Designer. You're essentially "piggybacking" your extra commands onto the MESSAGE clause.